Greg Walker
Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at University of Edinburgh; specialist in late-medieval and early modern drama and literature who co-authored "Predramatic Theatre" with Eleanor Rycroft.
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Jun 26, 2026
Greg WalkerGUEST
it's quite interesting in terms of cognitive research, you know, that you, you behave differently and you feel differently depending on what you think you're doing.
Greg WalkerGUEST
And in a theater today, and I guess quite quickly after the playhouses were built, you have a contract, which tells you what you are.
Greg WalkerGUEST
And if you think, I mean, you were talking now about that, you know, play begins in five minutes and all that kind of thing.
Greg WalkerGUEST
Playwrights and companies now spend an awful lot of energy and effort trying to create the danger that comes with uncertainty.
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Eleanor RycroftGUEST
from what happens with the building, the architecture, and the expectations, as we said at the beginning, of how you design drama for those spaces.