Preface: A Dramaturg's Life -- Introduction: What Is a Dramaturg? -- 1. Find Your Way In : Approaching a Great Classic for the First Time -- 2. Expand the Repertory : Discovering Archival Plays and Finding Their Audiences -- 3. Love and Encourage : Supporting a Playwright's Work as It Develops Over a Lifetime -- 4. Reflect Light Back : Working with Actors and Framing How the Audience Sees a Play -- Guide Your Audience : The Coast Of Utopia Program Inserts -- 5. Create Work and Opportunities : Dramaturg-Created Productions and Programs -- 6. Step Across Time and Place : Cross-Cultural Investigation -- 7. Search Beyond the Words : Enacting the Unconscious -- 8. Appreciate New Forms and Styles -- 9. Deepen an Interpretation : A Classical Play Successfully Reimagined -- 10. See with New Eyes : Revisiting a Great Classic in Yet a New Way -- To a Young Dramaturg -- Appendix 1: A Dramaturg's Toolkit -- Appendix 2: My 100 Interesting Things List : A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1982 -- Appendix 3: My 100 Interesting Things List : The Coast of Utopia in 2006-2007 -- Appendix 4: My List of Images : The Coast of Utopia -- Appendix 5: A Syllabus for a Course on Classical Play Interpretation.
