Beyond Therapy A Dramaturgical Look at Christopher Durang’s Absurdist Play
By Jenny Layton
Abstract
This dramaturgy notebook was created as a class project for an advanced Theatre History course. We were asked to choose one play to study throughout the semester with the ultimate goal of creating a dramaturgy notebook that would be usable for a production team were we to produce our show of choice. Having a great interest in Christopher Durang and his work, I chose to study Beyond Therapy. While the notebook as a whole serves to provide context for a production team, each section of the notebook has its own stand-alone function. In 2014, this research was presented at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region VII) in Boise, Idaho and was awarded first runner-up in the dramaturgy category. Role of the Dramaturge Dramaturgy is a relatively new position in the theatre world and not all companies have a resident dramaturge