William Monigold

13 Plays William Monigold

These plays do not assume what aplay is, or what a character should be. They do not assert themselves beyondthemselves. They question and identify, un-name and re-name. In W. W. Monigold's plays, and conversation, he has talked aboutplaywriting being the best form, since, as a playwright you get to be god. Youcreate the rules and the people who live by them, and the people who breakthem. You get to mete out judgment, you get to say your piece and assemblearmies to en-act it wherever you wish. Ideas, observations and a particularenergy is present, translated into these scripts. Willie is gawd around here, and it is quite a tour ofpossible worlds his collection gives us. Writing with exuberance andemotional truth, he makes plays in response to the craziness's of people. and embraces that craziness. At the same time he's swimmingamongst sexual ambiguity and gender roles, writing against assumptions of astatus quo. This quality of his work keeps his readers and collaborators out ofthe worn ruts of inherited thinking, pushing the imagination to broaden itsexperience and see the usual with new eyes. Kristen Palmer: theatre artist, educator.