The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy, Edwin Wong
The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy, Edwin Wong
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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected

Author: Edwin Wong

Narrator: Greg Patmore

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Friesen Press

Published: 03/02/2020


Synopsis

WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events.In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question--what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong?Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O'Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow's theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.Risk theatre is inaugurating a new tragic age in storytelling, drama, and literature. Listen to the book that launched the world's largest tragedy playwriting contest (risktheatre.com). "An ambitious, thought-provoking critique of tragedy in the 21st century." Kirkus"Impossible to put down." NJ Drama Australia Journal"Insightful and compelling ... A bold, inventive new model of theatre through the lens of risk." Broadway World UK"If you love literature--theater, film, novels, history, biography, opera, whatever--you need to read this extraordinary work ... Read it--twice. You will never read another work of literature the same way." Charlie Euchner, Columbia University

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cavak on April 22, 2019

Anyone who has taken a story writing or screenplay class in America has likely come across The Hero With a Thousand Faces at some point. If not the exact book itself, then another author has often either borrowed quotes or elements of Campbell's classic hero's journey. Some teachers consider it......more

Goodreads review by Reader on June 17, 2019

Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (06/19) In “The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy,” author Edwin Wong brings tragedy into the 21st century. Tragedy imitates reality. Yet in our modern times, tragedy no longer has the same impact that it used to have. The last great tragedies were written a very......more

Goodreads review by Conchita on March 17, 2019

I had to re-read the "The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy" by Edwin Wong. It was too good. It is a delight to recreate the possible scenarios exposed by the author in a very original thematic treatment of theater that invites further discussion and analysis. It is also a compendium of high academic an......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on July 24, 2019

If you love literature--theater, film, novels, history, biography, opera, whatever--you need to read this extraordinary work. Wong presents a new theory of tragedy, which contrasts those of Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzsche, and others. The classic theory, outlined by Aristotle, states that the hero has a......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 24, 2019

Tragedy scholar Edwin Wong has combined the elements of entertainment, hard work and the gamble into his kiln of language. Adding the fire of his mind he has shaped a solid and aesthetically pleasing framework for the aspiring playwright or master dramatic wordsmith. Wongs' Risk Theatre is a well th......more