The Playwright's Companion, 1996
Author | : Mollie A. Meserve |
Publisher | : Samuel French |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780937657195 |
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Author | : Mollie A. Meserve |
Publisher | : Samuel French |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780937657195 |
Author | : Colin Dolley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1474213898 |
The one-act play stands apart as a distinct art form with some well known writers providing specialist material, among them Bernard Shaw, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill. Alan Ayckbourn, Edward Albee and Tennesee Williams. There are also lesser-known writers with plenty of material to offer, yet sourcing one-act plays to perform is notoriously hard. This companion is the first book to survey the work of over 250 playwrights in an illuminating A-Z guide. Multiple styles, nationalities and periods are covered, offering a treasure trove of compelling moments of theatre waiting to be discovered. Guidance on performing and staging one-act plays is also covered as well as essential contact information and where to apply for performance rights. A chapter introducing the history of the one-act play rounds off the title as a definitive guide.
Author | : Will Dunne |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2017-10-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 022639364X |
The author of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion offers forty-two new exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters explore, develop, and strengthen their work. Will Dunne first captured the workshop experience in The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn to Character, Scene, and Story. Featuring forty-two new workshop-tested exercises, this volume allows writers to dig deeper into their scripts by fleshing out images, exploring characters from an emotional perspective, tapping the power of color and sense memory to trigger ideas, and trying other visceral techniques. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section to help tackle problem scenes, as well as hundreds of examples, many of which have been developed as both plays and films. Character, Scene, and Story is fully aligned with the new edition of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion, with cross-references between related exercises so that writers have the option to explore a given topic in more depth. While both guides can stand alone, together they give writers more than one hundred tools to develop more vivid characters and craft stronger scripts.
Author | : Deborah Payne Fisk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2000-05-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521588126 |
Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.
Author | : Fraser Grace |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1472524381 |
Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history of playwriting itself. PART 2 contains inspiring advice and reflections from leading playwrights:April De Angelis, Bryony Lavery, David Greig, Christina Reid, Dennis Kelly, Frank McGuinness, Lynn Nottage, Howard Brenton, Roy Williams, Tanika Gupta, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Polly Stenham, Tom Stoppard, Jack Thorne, Steve Waters, E.V. Crowe, David Henry Hwang, Lin Coghlan, Zinnie Harris and Anne Washburn. PART 3 offers practical exercises and advice on planning and conducting research, working out plots and characters, mastering authentic but accessible dialogue, navigating the industry and the rehearsal and production process.
Author | : Mary Luckhurst |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470751479 |
This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Author | : Susan J. Owen |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2008-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781405176101 |
This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn
Author | : Joan Herrington |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1136542191 |
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. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.