Clayton Funk

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics

Arts & Literature

“Lauren Friesen has written a timely book that explores where theatre came from and its aesthetic value. The author takes a critical look at theatre in its historical and contemporary context in the development of ‘what we know as theatre.’ The most outstanding takeaway is realized as we trek through the braided stream of influences from many epistemologies. Thus, asking where theatre comes from deserves a multilayered and appropriately complicated answer.”