Re: RAT, The dramaturgy of...

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

Yeah but performance art is still about performance --
which, to me, means an audience.

--- Mary Ann McGivern <mmcgivern@stlnet.com> wrote:
> Dickinson and Van Gogh illustrate the end of the
> line of one form of
> "fuck 'em" artistry. They both kept working,
> following their vision,
> with no audience. But they didn't do theater. It
> seems to me that
> playwrights give the audience a role (as well as the
> director, actors,
> dramaturg, stagehands, ticket clerks, pr staff,
> board of directors).
> Otherwise it's performance art.
> 
> Mary Ann
> 


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