Criticism Dramaturgy

Criticism Dramaturgy collects essays from philosopher and theater critic Patrick Pessoa about plays performed in Brazil between the years 2018 and 2020. The essays are organized through larger themes — death, art, love, sex, fight, utopia and pandemic — and the author proposes that the reading order is the reader's choice.
Referencing film, books and plays — and with the humor of a critic who has fun writing —, Patrick Pessoa’s pieces consider life through dramaturgy. For the author, criticism is a form of thanks, an exchange of gifts. It’s a co-authorship born when taking on the responsibility of continuing what someone else started. It's no judgement, no argument, nor a specialist business. It's dramaturgy.
“The theater criticism I practice in these pages is a new presentation of the plays from which I wrote. Don’t drama people say that each production is unique, different and unpredictable? That every day is a new day? Well. *”
The essays were originally published in *O Globo.

About the author
A Doctor of Philosophy with two post-doctoral degrees in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy, Patrick Pessoa is a theater critic, a playwright and an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and the Philosophy Graduate Program at UFF. As a playwright, he has collaborated with directors Aderbal Freire-Filho, Malu Galli and Bel Garcia, Marcio Abreu, Daniela Amorim, Jörgen Tjon A Fong, Marco André Nunes and Adriano Guimarães. He's the editor of Revista Viso: Cadernos de Estética Aplicada (Viso: Applied Aesthetics Journal) and he has published various essays of literature, film and theater criticism in specialized journals, as well as five books, one of them with Cobogó: Nômades (Nomads), 2015, in collaboration with Marcio Abreu.

About the collection
The Dramaturgy Collection has, since 2012, published writing by Brazilian and international playwrights. The books help in building a memory of current theater, making a new record in the contemporary theater scene. In 2015, Cobogó also launched Dramaturgia Espanhola, the Spanish Collection, and, in 2019, Dramaturgia Francesa, the French Collection. Over 70 authors have been published, with 82 titles.

Specifications
Collection Dramaturgy Collection
Author Patrick Pessoa
Language Portuguese
Page count 232
ISBN 9786556910420
Cover Cubículo
Format Softcover
Size 13 x 19 cm
Year 2021