The word "dramatist" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a playwright or someone who writes plays. Example: "Shakespeare is often regarded as the greatest dramatist in the English language." Alternatives include "playwright" and "scriptwriter."
But when you and the production get it right – when your words are sung and your scenes and characters engage an audience and move them to tears and laughter – it's the most exhilarating experience a dramatist can enjoy.
The Roman Stoic philosopher, essayist, celebrity and dramatist Seneca was tutor, speech-writer and adviser to the emperor Nero, and he was also, not coincidentally, one of the very richest people of his age.
Perhaps it is this contradiction that has allowed me to be a dramatist rather than an essayist.
Every Royal Court dramatist was invited to contribute ever-changing material to a revue about Enoch Powell, who could, by coincidence, be seen every morning at Sloane Square station going to work.
There's more agitation for the 24-year-old singer, songwriter, poet, dramatist, actor and annoyingly nice over-achiever: he and his band failed to secure visas for this visit so opted not to bring any of their gear, lest they arouse the suspicion of US immigration.
Internationally renowned dramatist Simon Stephens, originally from Stockport, selected and mentored the emerging writers including Liverpool playwright Kellie Smith.
In The Power Of Yes the dramatist tackles the financial crisis that started a year ago in the US.
The Far East dominated the official selection as did that legendary dramatist, Fah Tuh-long.
If so, parental indulgence has seldom had such an impressive result.In the festival itself, the drama highlight was work by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, a Spanish, or more precisely Galician, dramatist who died in 1936.
On that front, one assumes, Mr Allen knows whereof he writes; after all, not for nothing has he remained rooted to New York.Neil LaBute seems to write plays even more regularly than Woody Allen makes films, even if "Fat Pig" at the Lucille Lortel, the latest from a dramatist with a long-standing interest in misanthropy, is not as fierce as its title might suggest.
To see "Ivanov", "Uncle Vanya", and Brian Friel's Chekhov-themed "Afterplay" in quick succession is to glimpse the Anglo-Irish theatre's abiding empathy with dramatic literature's premier poet of the misspent life.That sense of waste is nowhere more vivid than in "Ivanov", which the National Theatre has revived in a new version by a Scottish dramatist, David Harrower.
