Playwrights

Others dismiss the "illusion of the real" to engage us in political arguments or absurdist metaphors. | Playwrights come to their craft with different aesthetic sensibilities. | However, these writers have in common their means of artistic expression - the play. | Thornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams, on the one hand, and Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, on the other, are playwrights with very different approaches to empathy and aesthetic distance. | They create recognisable worlds with troubling relevance to human behaviour and social themes.