Edwin Wong believes that it’s time to reboot the ancient art of tragedy. He developed his theory of tragedy called risk theatre to align tragedy with modern concepts of chance and uncertainty. The result is a tragic stage where every dramatic act is a gambling act and risk runs riot.

After reading Taleb’s "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan," he developed a new and unique model of drama called "risk theatre" to align tragedy with modern concepts of chance and uncertainty. The result is a tragic stage where every dramatic act …

Risk theatre is a bold new model of tragedy developed by critic Edwin Wong to challenge Aristotelian, Hegelian, and Nietzschean theories of tragedy. In risk theatre, gambling acts lead to unexpected low-probability, high-consequence outcomes.

Dec 10, 2021 · This 21 st century competition for tragic playwriting began as a partnership with classicist Edwin Wong, who lays out a blueprint for playwrights (and the competition’s rules) in The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy: Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected. Wong exalts three golden eras—ancient Greece; the English Renaissance; and German ...

Feb 4, 2019 · In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong?

Jul 16, 2019 · His new book, The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy, offers an update on (arguably) the most important form of literature. According to Wong, tragedy poses the same kinds of high-stakes risks you might find on Wall Street, in SEALs teams, and in nuclear brinkmanship.

Edwin Wong has been dubbed “an Aristotle for the 21st century” (David Konstan, NYU) and "independent and provocative" (Robert C. Evans, AUM) for exploring the intersection between risk and theatre.

Wong presents an original theory of tragedy that resonates with our modern age. Joy Huebert for Island Writer. Wong’s Risk Theatre is a well thought out and flexible structure built with the intention of reviving tragic theatre of the past using modern allegories and scenarios.