"These ten essays by well-known playwrights explore the pedagogy of playwriting, offering insights into the way established playwrights communicate their own creative methods to young writers"--Publisher description.
Author: Joan Herrington
Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Incorporated
ISBN: UOM:39015064758603
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 161
View: 890
This book provides a practical guide for all those who are involved in the creation of text for live performance. Containing a wealth of exercises, the text takes the reader through each stage of the process of making a play.
Author: Noël Greig
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415310431
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 204
View: 682
This essential guide to the craft of playwriting, from the author of The Libertine, reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play.
Author: Stephen Jeffreys
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 1559369728
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 224
View: 480
August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted.
Author: Joan Herrington
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0815337795
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 310
View: 387
This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business practices and political and artistic beliefs ...
Author: Janet Neipris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780878301881
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 241
View: 778
Examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites international playwrights throughout.
Author: Clem Martini
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
ISBN: 0887548946
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 203
View: 244
INTRODUCING THE PLAYWRIGHTS The four key playwrights included in this
book – Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Howard Brenton and David Edgar – were all
born during the years 1938–48. They are thus part of a generation whose ...
Author: Chris Megson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781408177891
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 352
View: 782
Angelo Parra, an award-winning playwright and playwriting instructor, has had
productions of his plays Off-Broadway in New York City and in Los Angeles,
Chicago, and Washington, D.C. He's also had productions at many prestigious ...
Author: Angelo Parra
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118017227
Category: Music
Page: 384
View: 896
Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own book. The result, The Playwright's Guidebook, is a clear, concise, and engaging handbook.
Author: Stuart Spencer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429934212
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 392
View: 273
In a series of interviews with fifty playwrights from the US and UK, this book offers a fascinating study of the voices, thoughts, and opinions of today's most important dramatists.
Author: Caroline Jester
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781474239028
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 304
View: 514
The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: David Mamet: Edmond (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992); David Henry Hwang: Family Devotions (1981), The ...
Author: Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350153639
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 256
View: 351
Edited by Dan Rebellato, Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009 provides an authoritative and stimulating reassessment of the theatre of the decade, together with a detailed study of the work of David Greig (Nadine Holdsworth), Simon ...
Author: Dan Rebellato
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781408129586
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 352
View: 465