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New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

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Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.

Patrice Pavis

Patrice Pavis

Patrice Pavis

Born: 1947 (age 77)

Bio: Patrice Pavis was Professor for Theatre Studies at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he retired at the end of the academic year 2015/16. He has written extensively about performance, focusing his study and research mainly in semiology and interculturalism in theatre.

Known for:

Theatre at the crossroads of culture (1991)
Analyzing Performance (2003)
Languages of the stage (1982)

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