Theatre Thu Mar 13 2008

Q&A With a Young Playwright

Chicago-based In These Times magazine features an interview with a young, up-and-coming playwright, Christopher Shinn. When asked his advice about where an artist should begin, he responded in a way that made me think about my own artistic perspective, saying: "Any artist needs to come up with a theory of human nature. And mine has to do with an inherent vulnerability in people, and their attempt to escape that vulnerability through a narcissistic denial of reality. That’s been around since the Greeks and Shakespeare’s tragedies."

- Lindsay