Playwriting category: 893 books
by Angelo Parra
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage
Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional...
Playwriting
Structure, Character, How and What to Write
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.
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Playwrights on Playwriting
From Ibsen to Ionesco
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2001
For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard...
by Julie Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Succinct and thorough, "Playwriting, Brief & Brilliant" will, in just one hour of reading, tell you everthing you need to know about playwriting. It guides you through the basics of dialogue, character, and plot. It gives tips for getting past writer's block. and finally, it provides practical advice on marketing your play.
by Anna Farkas
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years...
Belonging: Australian playwriting in the 20th century
Australian Playwriting in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This new history explores the relationship between twentieth century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on the creative tension sparked by the duelling impulses of nationalism and cosmopolitanism. Also competing are artistic seriousness and larrikin populism. This...
by Jean M. Mattson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1997
Playwriting for Puppet Theatre provides a foundation for those puppeteers, teachers and librarians who want to develop suitable scripts for puppet theatre. Mattson explores the difference between traditional theatre and puppet theatre and notes the special characteristics of the various puppets. The...
Playwriting and Young Audiences
Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in today’s society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both professional and educational contexts. We only have to look at the colourful and compelling plays of...
Playwriting and Young Audiences
Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in today’s society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both professional and educational contexts. We only have to look at the colourful and compelling plays...
The Playwright's Process
Learning the Craft from Today's Leading Dramatists
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Here is the first and only manual for playwrights ever designed to draw directly from the wisdom of leading contemporary dramatists. Interwoven with hundreds of quotations from the author's own in-depth interview series at the Dramatists Guild, in New York City, The Playwright's Process offers a fresh...
by Jeffery Hatcher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Jeffrey Hatcher knows the nuts and bolts of writing for the theater. Here, he shares his views on it all--from building tension and plotting a scene, right down to moving a character from one side of the stage to the other. From crafting an intriguing beginning to delivering a satisfying ending.
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Playwriting
The Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Summary The Nigerian theatre milieu is trapped in a cobweb of strangulating strings. Little wonder, therefore, that its growth has been impaired over the years. The numerous multi-tribal thrusts in Nigeria disallow the full growth and development of theatre forms and trends. The university and other...
The Playwright's Guidebook
An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing
During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular handbooks have good ideas in them, they all suffer...
How I Did It
Establishing a Playwriting Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
For this book, Lawrence Harbison has interviewed successful playwrights who have developed relationships with theaters that regularly produce their plays, have had at least one major New York production, have their plays published by a licensor such as Dramatists Play Service or Samuel French, have...