Poetics Primer
If you like live performance and you don’t love Aristotle and his Poetics, then you need to devour this article to understand the basic living structure that creates the being of any worthwhile dramatic presentation.

If you like live performance and you don’t love Aristotle and his Poetics, then you need to devour this article to understand the basic living structure that creates the being of any worthwhile dramatic presentation.

In order to preserver the history of who we are on UnitedStage.com, this was our original mandate 14 years ago:

We welcome you to the new home of the United Stage! Since November 25, 1996, we were a website dedicated to supporting Playwrights who wanted to direct their own plays.
Now, as United Stage becomes a blog, we find ourselves still supporting our founding mandate, but we have expanded our world view to dig deeper into how Aristotle and his Poetics continue to unearth our divine rhythms to affect our human motivations in the world.
We look forward to expanding our definition and understanding of our universe in live performance!

Salome and Medea celebrate lust in red dust and whimpers.
If the Church mandates morality, and if the state fixes our appropriate behavior with laws, ethics, rules and values, what then, is the role of The Arts in the lives of the everyday citizen and must we require the state and the Church to not only support The Arts but to practice them as well?

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