The Playwrights Workbook

Author : Jean-Claude van Italie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1476844844
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Workbook written by Jean-Claude van Italie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.

Author : Jacqueline Goldfinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000425061
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playwriting with Purpose written by Jacqueline Goldfinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor. This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance for new and emerging playwrights. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue and silent moments to analyzing elements of well-made plays and creating an atmospheric environment. Each chapter is followed by writing prompts and pro tips that address unique facets of the conversation about the art and craft of playwriting. The book also includes information on the business of playwriting and a recommended reading list of published classic and contemporary plays, providing all the tools to successfully transform an idea into a script, and a script into a performance. Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students of playwriting hands-on lessons, artistic concepts, and business savvy to succeed in today’s theater industry.

Author : Jonathan Charles Dorf
Publisher : Young Playwrights 101
ISBN 13 : 1599710692
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Playwrights 101 written by Jonathan Charles Dorf and published by Young Playwrights 101. This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is a complete playwriting course that uses easy-to-follow lessons and practical exercises to guide playwrights from idea through submission. While it was originally written with young playwrights and their teachers in mind, you dont have to be a student or drama teacher to benefit from YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101: no matter what your age or experience, if youre looking for detailed, no-nonsense advice about the craft and business of playwriting-and to write plays that will actually be produced-this is the resource for you. Here are just a few examples of topics youll find inside: Creating Characters Conflict Play Structure Choosing the Right Setting The "Question" of the Play How to Use an Outline Handling Exposition Using Punctuation to Write Better Dialogue Opening and Ending Your Play The Writing Process Dealing with Writer's Block Choosing the Best Title Recentering Your Play Rewriting Using the Expanded Writer's Web and Troubleshooter's Checklist How to Have a Useful Play Reading The Playwright's Bill of Rights and much, much more Whether youre writing your first play, want to brush up on your skills or are looking for that missing something in your writing, YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is the jumpstart you need to write plays that make it to the stage.

Author : Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253113660
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Female Playwrights written by Kathy A. Perkins and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.

Author : Sam Shepard
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679767894
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unseen Hand written by Sam Shepard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you visit Sam Shepard country, expect to find bayous, deserts, and junkyards where dreams rust alongside abandoned '51 Chevys. Prepare to meet broken gunmen and refugees from distant galaxies, slavering swamp things and California Highway Patrolmen gone high-tech and blood simple. It is a country whose creator does nothing less than renew America's myths. And sometimes he invents them from scratch. In these fourteen darkly funny, furiously energetic early works for the theater, our most audacious living playwright sets genres and archetypes spinning, with results that are utterly mesmerizing.

Author : Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher : Heinemann Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solving Your Script written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Heinemann Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solving Your Script is a hardheaded approach to solving technical problems in scripts. In down-to-earth chapters, award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Sweet introduces tools enabling writers to: write exposition using the future tense make characters vivid even before they appear find the idiosyncrasies in a character that will generate story Each chapter includes a discussion of a particular technique, followed by an assignment from Sweet's workshop and scenes written by his colleagues and students. There are also detailed discussions of what works in the scenes, what is problematic, and why.

Author : Sam Smiley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128509
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playwriting written by Sam Smiley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incidence of melanoma has increased by 2000% since 1930 and one person dies each hour from the disease. This cutting edge guide provides scientifically accurate information which patients and their families need, to understand melanoma and its treatment and to receive necessary reassurance. It is also a vitally important resource for those who want information about preventing the disease or finding it early when it is most curable. Catherine M. Poole, a melanoma survivor and melanoma patient advocate for many organisations, and Dr. DuPont Guerry, an internationally renowned melanoma expert, have collaborated to provide current, correct and easily understood information on the disease. The authors have had first-hand contact with a multitude of patients with melanoma, and they understand exactly how to empower patients to gain control of their situations and obtain the best treatment.

Author : Caroline Sharp
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 125012249X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Writer's Workbook written by Caroline Sharp and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress? A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up, and jump-start anyone who writes. A wise and funny friend who will cheerlead you through even your darkest can't-write days and "every idea I've ever had is awful" nights, she provides encouraging suggestions, hilarious observations, and an amazingly vivid catalogue of writers' neuroses (with advice on overcoming them, of course). From "Roget's Resume" and "Emulating Ernest" to "End Well," "The Rewrite Rut," and "Dear John," the exercises in this generous, wry workbook will keep your ideas fresh, your mind open, and your pen moving.

Author : Elmer Edgar Stoll
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816604401
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poets and Playwrights written by Elmer Edgar Stoll and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets and Playwrights was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Poets and Playwrights is a collection of nine essays by the eminent Shakespearean scholar and critic, the late Elmer Edgar Stoll. In this work, which was first published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1930, Professor Stoll presents his maturest consideration of the art of the poets and playwrights of his subtitleShakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and Milton. The most extensive essay, "Shakespeare and the Moderns," includes, in Mr. Stoll's words, "a review of Shakespeare as I conceive him, in order the better to compare him with those who in some respect or other are his peers."

Author : John Dunmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780908708307
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Workbook written by John Dunmore and published by . This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: