"Age of the Geek, baby!"

Welcome back for the second post of my blog! Last week, I talked about what dramaturgy is and introduced you to the concept of omniturgy. This week, I'm taking my dramaturg's curiosity and applying it to one of the major queries of our time: What is a geek?

"You keep using that word..."

I am a dramaturg. "What the hell is that?" you ask. It's a good question. In fact, it's a question that most - if not all - of us who identify ourselves by the title have struggled to answer countless times. I say "struggled" because it's a question we ask ourselves constantly as well, and the definitions we come up with often feel insufficient, changeable, even contradictory. I say "countless times" because this word sounds made-up to pretty much everybody who hasn't spent a lot of time in the professional theatre. Which is pretty much everybody.

This initial post will serve as a brief (and in no way comprehensive) introduction to the term, to the practice, and to why I've decided to write a blog in the first place.