Plays for a New Theater Author:John Hawkes, Corrado Alvaro, Yvann Goll, et.al. In this collection, five playwrights respond to the challenge of the modern stage in very different ways. Alvaro, Hawkes, and Hivnor came to the drama from the novel; Goll was primarily a poet; Vian wrote novels and poetry as well as plays. They have in common, in their approach to theater, the insight and imagination of poetic vision.