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The invisible architecture of a play, built by the one person nobody sees onstage.
means The craft of shaping a theatrical work—its structure, context, and meaning—often done by a dramaturg who advises the production.
from From Greek dramatourgia, fusing drama (deed, action) with ergon (work)—literally the work of making action happen, coined as a discipline by Lessing in 1760s Hamburg.
Goethe's guyLessing wrote the first major dramaturgy at Hamburg's national theater.
Sociology stole itGoffman used it to frame everyday life as performance.
Two flavorsProduction dramaturgy serves one show; new-play dramaturgy grows scripts.