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form. At the same time, the performing group would be
creating theatre of the most sophisticated variety; for the
Writers Theatre would be a Theatre of the Mind, dedicated to
understanding the thoughts and emotions of other men by
realizing their words.13
Although Readers and Writers Theatre have emerged from
the art of interpretation, they do not serve identical func-
tions. Coger describes Interpreters Theatre (Readers Thea-
tre) as "a medium in which two or more oral interpreters
through their oral reading cause an audience to experience
the literature."14 In a definition that is parallel except
for "cause an audience to," Writers Theatre can be described
as "a medium in which the participants, through their oral
reading, experience literature." In Writers Theatre the
participants literally become the medium for the written
performances of great authors. And, as the words are per-
formed orally, an audience is created by and from the per-
formers themselves. The minds of the performers have become
the audience for the thoughts from the writers' minds. This
is the audience that is essential to literature and is, per-
haps, the raison d'getre of theatre itself.
The experimental Writers Theatre program for this paper
will be based on a limited selection of literature, especially
13Leslie Irene Coger, "Interpreters Theatre: Theatre
of the Mind," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 49 (1963), 157.
14Ibid.
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Black, Ann N. A Literary Commune, thesis, August 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663367/m1/63/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .