Playwriting
eBook - PDF

Playwriting

A Backstage Guide

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Playwriting

A Backstage Guide

About this book

This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks, examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone their craft.

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Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350135833
eBook ISBN
9781350135840
Edition
1
Subtopic
Drama

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations and Features
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: What does a playwright do?
  9. Chapter 2: How to have ideas
  10. Chapter 3: Monologue
  11. Chapter 4: (How) can we learn from Aristotle?
  12. Chapter 5: Structure
  13. Chapter 6: Form
  14. Chapter 7: Plot vs. story
  15. Chapter 8: Time and place
  16. Chapter 9: Making a scene
  17. Chapter 10: Dialogue and subtext
  18. Chapter 11: Character
  19. Chapter 12: Writing your play
  20. Chapter 13: Getting it staged
  21. Notes
  22. Further reading