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“Ricky becomes a part of them,” notes the dramatist, who purposefully creates roles that showcase the athleticism of acting.

As Paul Cartledge explains, mythic settings offered raw material for dramatists to explore how a community should bear its collective responsibilities.

Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.

“Blood Knot,” the breakthrough play in which he found his voice as a dramatist, is about two brothers from the same mother, one dark-skinned, the other light-skinned.

Foreman was a prolific playwright, but I consider him more of an auteur than a dramatist.