dramaturge
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- noun
- /ˈdræməˌtɜrdʒ/
- Specialized
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dramaturgo
- In New York City, an eighteen-year-old playwright works with a top professional director, a dramaturge, and a cast of seasoned professional actors to produce her first off-Broadway play, The PC Laundromat, a "political poem set to the rhythm of washers and dryers."
- dramaturge and director
Examples
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Of eight professional actors, a playwright, director, dramaturge, and a team of designers and theatre technicians are in the final stages of rehearsal for The Yellow Boar, a new play based upon the life and artwork of a very young artist who was the first child in the state of Arizona to be diagnosed with the AIDS virus.
Academic text (1993) -
At the theater workshop, the dramaturge helped the actors understand the historical context of their characters.
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I had developed this piece sort of as Henry's dramaturge for over a year.
Blog text (12) -
He now holds a doctorate in theater studies, and I gather he wants to be a dramaturge, an actor, or a professor.
Academic text (2007) -
Atheist's Paradise could work as a play, but it is in desperate need of a dramaturge, and without a strong leading man, I have to say Atheist's Paradise is god-awful.
Blog text (22) -
The dramaturge provided valuable insights on the script during the rehearsal process.
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Before the performance, the dramaturge gave a presentation about the themes in the play to the cast.
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dramaturge comes from the Greek root drama meaning 'play' and a part that means 'worker', so it literally meant a 'worker on plays'. That's why a dramaturge today helps with scripts, picks suitable plays, and gives background or context for a production.