An Identity Card In The Making

Abstract

Reading a book is the most impressive game that people have yet invented maintains Wislawa Szymborska in the preface to her book, Nonrequired Reading(2002). I would like to echo her words by considering the idea of writing and asserting that writing a book is a similarly impressive activity created by people seeking to enjoy themselves. It is a demanding enterprise that entails concentration, dedication, restraint and patience. It demands creativity with thoughts that soar freely as well as utterances that are sensibly controlled. It is an activity that serves as a womb for the birth of the human spirit. With this thought in mind, I approached a number of the sixty authors now participating in this book; I was hoping my colleagues would join me in a journey of writing to convey the spirit of the times in our field of theatre/drama education.