New Jersey Stage - July/August 2014 | Page 34

pends on producing new work. How important is it for a playwright to have theatres like that? Many theatres consider new works a harder sell. Yeah, what’s interesting about that is I teach theatre history at the University of Idaho and I’m still trying to figure out where in the history of theatre did we get this obsession with the distinction between new plays and plays that have been done before? Because I think the golden age of dramatic writing in the United Kingdom was dur