Writing Your First Play

This new edition is thoroughly updated and contains new examples based on contemporary plays. The author has added additional writing exercises and a new student-written one act play.

Author: Roger Hall

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781136082146

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 184

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Writing Your First Play provides the beginning playwright with the tools and motivation to tell a story through dramatic form. Based in a series of exercises which gradually grow more complex, the books helps the reader to understand the basic elements of drama, conflict, and action. The exercises help the reader to become increasingly sophisticated in the use of dramatic formats, turning simple ideas into a viable play. Topics include: the role of action in drama; developing action and conflict to reveal character; writing powerful and persuasive dialog; writing from personal experience:pros and cons; how to begin the story and develop the storyline. This new edition is thoroughly updated and contains new examples based on contemporary plays. The author has added additional writing exercises and a new student-written one act play. It also contains a new chapter on how to sell your play once it is written. With examples based on student work, this text both inspires and educates the student and fledgling playwright, providing solid tools and techniques for the craft of writing a drama. Roger A. Hall, a professor of theatre at James Madison University, had taught playwriting for nearly 20 years. Many of his students have gone on to write for theatre, television, and the screen. He has written numerous plays and articles and has acted and directed extensively in the theatre.
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How Not to Write a Play

"There is no point in pretending that this is not going to be an argumentative book or that overemphasis isn't going to crop up pretty frequently in the chapters that follow.

Author: Walter Kerr

Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

ISBN: 0871293323

Category: American drama

Page: 150

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"Most young playwrights nowadays want to learn 'how to' write a play. This seems to me to be a mistake." Thus begins the first chapter of Walter Kerr's fascinating book on the art of playwriting. Taking an about-face look at the creative process, with chapters such as "How to Spoil a Good Story," Mr. Kerr leads us through the exciting and daring adventure of successfully bringing a play to fulfillment. "There is no point in pretending that this is not going to be an argumentative book or that overemphasis isn't going to crop up pretty frequently in the chapters that follow. The face of our theater is so familiar to us that we shall never see its features without blowing them up a bit, one by one. And it does seem to me that we had better do some arguing - quick." Walter Kerr, drama critic, playwright, teacher, director, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama Criticism, served as drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune and was chief critic for the Sunday New York Times until his retirement. -- from back cover.
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The Art and Craft of Playwriting

Offers advice for creating characters, advancing the plot, building suspense, and incorporating stage directions for theatrical productions

Author: Jeffery Hatcher

Publisher: Story Press

ISBN: UOM:39015043103541

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 216

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Offers advice for creating characters, advancing the plot, building suspense, and incorporating stage directions for theatrical productions
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Writing and Selling a Play

three or four times after he had copied out his play for the fourth time ! Two
versions of Brieux ' s Maternity are published , the second being a later , and
preferred , version . Therefore , if you write your first play with the thought that you
are ...

Author: Fanny Venable Cannon

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015031017166

Category: Drama

Page: 321

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Cyclopaedia of English Literature

A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the
Present Times Robert Chambers ... mentions , that And making garlands ev ' ry
hour , Philaster was the first play that brought them into To write your names in
some ...

Author: Robert Chambers

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ISBN: HARVARD:HWFZZV

Category: Authors, English

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Writing the Broadway Musical

A classic updated to include the developments of the 1990s-the first book to explore in detail how to create a Broadway musical.

Author: Aaron Frankel

Publisher: Drama Pub

ISBN: UOM:39015001518326

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 182

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A classic updated to include the developments of the 1990s-the first book to explore in detail how to create a Broadway musical.
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The Living Age

He had a great distaste for the somewhat insipid heroine of that play of his ,
which had met with favor and was to be brought out soon . It had been written on
the lines bespoken , and his heart had not been in it . He had taken his first play
to ...

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ISBN: STANFORD:36105119095011

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The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television

CONTINUED A) A six-year-old Michael in a school play. “My first play,” scrawled
beneath the picture. B) A high school newspaper article about Michael Dorsey. c)
In another costume, older now . . . a high school play. VOICE OVER Next! [INT.] ...

Author: Ben Brady

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9780292791824

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 282

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This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer. Based on their experience as professional writers and as teachers in a large, successful screenwriting program at California State University, Northridge, the authors provide a progression of assignments at manageable screenwriting lengths for beginners. They lead students through development of a premise, treatment, stepsheet, and, finally, miniscreenplay—essential elements in writing a longer script. A major feature of the text is the use of many example scenes from contemporary and classic American films, such as On the Waterfront, Kramer vs. Kramer, The Godfather, The Graduate, Tootsie, and more. Other scenes are drawn from international films and dramatic literature. The criticism of these scenes invites students to develop their own comparative models, while simultaneously providing exposure to the central analytical terms of good dramatic writing. The authors also place screenwriting within the larger tradition of dramatic writing in order to put the beginning writer in touch with the wealth of art, experience, and practical ideas the drama contains. They provide an up-to-date, practical discussion of marketing and copywriting a screenplay, with addresses of relevant professional societies. Most importantly, they never offer an ill-advised shortcut or restrict students to only one way of thinking about a character, situation, or scene. In The Understructure of Writing for Film & Television, the student's thought and creativity are central.
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Writing the 10 Minute Play

the Alan Minieri Memorial Playwriting Award for The American Dream Revisited.
For more information: www.CraigPospisil.com. Glenn Alterman: What was it like
for you writing your first ten-minute play? Was it your plan to write a ten-minute ...

Author: Glenn Alterman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9780879108809

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 180

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Writing the Award Winning Play

Do you need to write your first draft in the proper play format outlined in great
detail in Chapter 13? Feel free to, if you want. I (Shannon) find it inhibits the
creative flow. I always type my first draft entirely flush left (everything lines up with
the left ...

Author: Jan Henson Dow

Publisher: iUniverse

ISBN: 9780595293117

Category: Drama

Page: 192

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As winners and judges in playwriting contests, this team knows what sets award-winning plays apart from those that end up in the rejection pile. Let two national award-winning playwrights direct you through the playwriting process with this fun, yet vital guide that details the essentials judges, producers, and other theatre professionals are looking for in a play. For beginning playwrights and intermediate playwrights who wish to improve their work, this is a witty, easy to follow book filled with practical information designed to give your play an edge. Developed through personal experience as playwrights and play contest judges, and through their playwriting workshops, Writing the Award-Winning Play covers writing and developing your play; what to do with your play once it's written, utilizing readings, playwriting groups, and workshops; entering contests; getting produced; writing the synopsis and query letter; promoting your work; legal matters; and more.
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How To Write Your First Novel

Experiment by writing with a friend. Each one of you could write alternate
chapters. Or you could take a character each and write the dialogue for that
person. ♢ Play around with the first and third person. ♢ Try out different genres
such as ...

Author: Sophie King

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781848034693

Category: Art

Page: 192

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Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published. This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect ending. With helpful exercises in each chapter you will learn how to: - Develop a brilliant idea for your first novel - Create characters that will make your novel come alive - Plot your novel so that your readers simply have to turn the page - Unravel the mysteries of viewpoint - Create realistic dialogue and settings so your readers feel they are there - Find your own voice. - Most importantly, the book includes tips and advice on how to get published. This new edition also includes a ten step guide to revision so that you can polish your novel to be the best it can be.
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Seagull Theatre Quarterly

And the next play I directed was Paul Zindel ' s The Effect of Ganinia Rays on
Man - inthe - moon Marigolds . And that I think was a major turning point as well .
... Do you remember writing your first play ? What was that like , that experience ?

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Publisher:

ISBN: IND:30000075092431

Category: Theater

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A More Perfect Ten

You're finished. Done. You've read it ten times since writing “lights fade,” re-read
it again with emotions, without ... First, most theatres don't wantyouto send a
SASE because they won't/ can't/don't want to return your play – it's too much of an
 ...

Author: Gary Garrison

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

ISBN: 9781585104574

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 180

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A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important 10-minute festival opportunities, new sample 10-minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.
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The Playwright s Muse

joan Herrington: When did you write your first play? August Wilson: My very first
play, 1973. ]H: What other kind of creative writing had you been doing at that time
? AW: I was writing short fiction and poetry. jH: What made you decide to write a ...

Author: Joan Herrington

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136542121

Category: Drama

Page: 320

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Illusions

... start writing for the theatre ? What was nights later , I suddenly knew what I
meant when I wrote your first play ? such and such . ... Mine is the poor man's
version of the Cloud of the Then he said , “ Why don't you write a play ? ” So I did
and ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105015270445

Category: Motion pictures

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Comment

Although some were browned completely , none had yet fallen for the autumn
had began late : Mahon moved his hand outside the protective wrapping of
blanket to test the air ... You are always writing your first play and never is it
finished ” .

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ISBN: UOM:39015056054565

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Editor s preface Life of Samuel Johnson Abraham Cowley Sir John Denham John Milton Samuel Butler Earl of Rochester Earl of Roscommon Thomas Otway Edmund Waller John Dryden John Pomfret Earl of Dorset George Stepney John Philips William Walsh Edmund Smith Richard Duke William King Thomas Sprat Earl of Halifax Thomas Parnell Samuel Garth Nicholas Rowe Joseph Addison John Hughes John Sheffield duke of Buckinghamshire Matthew Prior

a statesman . In this play he made his essay of dramatic rhyme , which he
defends in his dedication with sufficient certainty of a favourable ... I saw " The
Indian Queen ' acted , a tragedy , well written , so beautiful with rich scenes as the
like had never been seen here , or haply ... Pepys speaks of it for the first time
under the 15th January , 1666 – 7 ; but it is clear , from what he says , that it had
been ...

Author: Samuel Johnson

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:B4099851

Category: English poetry

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The Blue Eyed Tarokaja

I admired him both as a writer of novels and plays and as a warm, decent, funny,
highly intellectual man. Keene: What led you to write your first play? Abe: It was
an accident. I had no intention whatsoever of writing a play, but I had no choice.

Author: Donald Keene

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 0231515200

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 208

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The preeminent Western authority on Japanese literature a presents a collection of personal essays and literary vignettes that offers a fresh and personal insight into his prolific career as a writer and translator, traveler and social observer.
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Writing Your First Novel

Perhaps a new plan is now needed? 3. Return to your original conception of your
characters. Have fun; play games with them. What do they wear, eat, read? Write
letters tothem and from them –rediscover and recreate them. 4. Avoid the ...

Author: Shelley Weiner

Publisher: Guardian Books

ISBN: 9781783560424

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Setting about writing a novel is like starting to climb a mountain with its top lost in the clouds. You can imagine the view from the summit, but how do you identify the best ascent? Novel writing requires planning, commitment, perseverance and the belief that you can reach the peak… even if you don’t yet know all the steps along the way. ‘Writing Your First Novel’ is the companion that will tell you what you need to know in order to begin your journey. Full of insight and wit, it combines expertise on how to successfully bring your story to the page with advice on the practicalities of how to get started in the first place… and how to keep on going until the end. ‘Writing Your First Novel’ covers: + Creating Believable Characters + Making Your Characters Talk + The Importance of Setting + Finding the Plot + Who Tells the Story and How? + Settling Down and Making It Happen + Sustaining Your Momentum 60-Minute Masterclasses are expert ebooks that help you do more with your creative writing, journalism and entrepreneurship. Locking on to the stuff that you actually need to know, each title is a precise, practical pointer on the matters that matter most.
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