One can perfectly well write a play without having studied dramaturgy, just as one can compose music by ear without ever having learned music theory. It simply means that one is instinctively applying the rules of harmony or dramaturgy. It does not mean that these rules do not exist.
Jean-Pierre Martinez, both linguist and playwright, casts an analytical eye on the history of theatre as well as on his own body of work, in order to map out theatrical genres, not as a normative system, but as a framework for reflection and an invitation to creativity.
With this brief essay, he seeks to share his theoretical and practical expertise in dramaturgy with all those who make theatre today, or who take an interest in it, whether as authors, directors or actors, but also as scholars, teachers, students… or simply passionate spectators.
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