We want to discover how to have a unique voice. We all know Shakespeare when we hear it. Can you tell the difference between a work by Joyce and a work of Moliere?
Richard Foreman comes from a peculiar place in theater. One trademark of his is his dialogue, which is much like nonsense. He forces the audience into self-consciousness, hoping to make the audience aware not of the joke itself but aware of why they laugh. For another example of unusual dialogue read James Joyce's "Finnigan's Wake."
A source of mythology seemed to abound in each of our pieces. We see the stage in peril. It's like the fear of death. How do you go? What will you do when the building's on fire?
Avoid dialogue that is:
- Pithy (brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation)
- Maudlin (1. tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental: a maudlin story of a little orphan and her lost dog; 2. foolishly or mawkishly sentimental because of drunkenness)
[Note: definitions taken from dictionary.com]
Another playwright of note: Eugene Ionesco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Ionesco
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