Playwriting Intensive

Author : Paul Castagno
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478651321

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Playwriting Intensive by Paul Castagno Pdf

Playwriting Intensive takes a fresh approach to playwriting—putting dialogue first. Castagno shows novice playwrights how to use language to generate character and structure. His decades of experience teaching and writing have resulted in a fresh, informed pedagogy designed to get students off to the right start and progressing quickly. Castagno emphasizes learning by process through the text, encouraging readers to experiment and familiarize themselves with the best practices provided. His lessons focus on the skills contemporary playwrights will use in their careers, including promoting diversity both through featured examples and dedicated exercises.

Author : Paul Castagno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1478647663

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Playwriting Intensive by Paul Castagno Pdf

Playwriting Intensive takes a fresh approach to playwriting-putting dialogue first. Castagno shows novice playwrights how to use language to generate character and structure. His decades of experience teaching and writing have resulted in a fresh, informed pedagogy designed to get students off to the right start and progressing quickly.Castagno emphasizes learning by process through the text, encouraging readers to experiment and familiarize themselves with the best practices provided. His lessons focus on the skills contemporary playwrights will use in their careers, including promoting diversity both through featured examples and dedicated exercises.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781559366748

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Dramatists Sourcebook 26th Edition by Anonim Pdf

The fully updated new edition of this indispensable guide.

Author : Theater Communications Group
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781458781406

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Dramatists Sourcebook by Theater Communications Group Pdf

The deities of the theatre are the playwrights. These gods have their own bible - the Dramatist Sourcebook.' - Back Stage. 'The Sourcebook is a treasure trove of sound advice and practical information for the working writer. It provides a road map for beginning writers and is an essential reference for those well traveled.' - Donald Margulies, P...

Author : William W. Demastes
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839718

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The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011 by William W. Demastes Pdf

(Best American Short Plays). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future." From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, David Mamet, and Horton Foote. This volume, Bill Demastes' first edition as series editor, illustrates how well the short story play can grapple with the many dimensions of love. The selected plays present unique perspectives on the wide range of love's impact on our lives, each giving a thoroughly modern twist to the idea that life would be so much easier (but also much less interesting) if we could only avoid love's mercurial influence.

Author : Michael Wright,Christi Pyland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Playwriting
ISBN : 0933919530

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The Student's Guide to Playwriting Opportunities by Michael Wright,Christi Pyland Pdf

Author : Barbara Parisi
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781557839367

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The Best American Short Plays 2009-2010 by Barbara Parisi Pdf

(Applause Books). Applause is proud to continue the series that for over 70 years has been the standard of excellence for one-act plays in America. As previous series editor Ramon Delgado wrote in his introduction to The Best American Short Plays of 1989 , the choice of entries for each edition has been based on the same goal: "to include a balance among three categories of playwrights: 1) established playwrights who continue to practice the art and craft of the short play, 2) emerging playwrights whose record of productions indicate both initial achievement and continuing artistic productivity, and 3) talented new playwrights whose work may not have had much exposure but evidences promise for the future." From its inception, The Best American Short Plays has identified new, cutting-edge playwrights who have gone on to establish award-winning careers, including Tennessee Williams ( A Streetcar Named Desire ), Edward Albee ( Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ), Wendy Wasserstein ( The Heidi Chronicles ), David Mamet ( Glengarry Glen Ross ), and Horton Foote ( The Trip to Bountiful ). This volume is Barbara Parisi's fifth edition as series editor. The volumes of the new millennium include the work of playwrights Murray Schisgal, Adam Kraar, Theodore Mann, David Ives, and Mark Medoff, among others, and tackle complex human issues through diverse theatrical styles and a wide range of character perspectives.

Author : J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108804875

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Susan Glaspell in Context by J. Ellen Gainor Pdf

Susan Glaspell in Context provides new, accessible, and informative essays by leading international scholars and artists on Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell's life, career development, writing, and ongoing global creative impact. The collection features wide-ranging discussions of Glaspell's fiction, plays, and non-fiction in both historical and contemporary critical contexts, and demonstrates the significance of Glaspell's writing and other professional activities to a range of academic disciplines and artistic engagements. The volume also includes the first analyses of six previously unknown Glaspell short stories, as well as interviews with contemporary stage and film artists who have produced Glaspell's works or adapted them for audiences worldwide. Organized around key locations, influences, and phases in Glaspell's career, as well as core methodological and pedagogical approaches to her work, the collection's thirty-one essays place Glaspell in historical, geographical, political, cultural, and creative contexts of value to students, scholars, teachers, and artists alike.

Author : Shawn MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435710375

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Prodigal Son by Shawn MacDonald Pdf

Happily planted on the west coast, Peter has his whole life mapped out for him: a career he can believe in, a fabulous boyfriend who loves him, and a circle of friends who accept him for who he is. But when he starts seeing visions and experiencing strange physical sensations, his boyfriend assumes he's going crazy. The best help Peter can find is a therapist and single mother working out of her basement suite. Together they unravel the mystery behind Peter's mystical reawakening, a journey that leads him back to his conservative Catholic childhood in Quebec City, a family in denial, and his father's deathbed. Prodigal Son - a story of going in and coming out again.

Author : Jacqueline Goldfinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000425062

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Playwriting with Purpose by Jacqueline Goldfinger Pdf

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 : Anna Kay France,Paula Jo Corso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810827824

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International Women Playwrights by Anna Kay France,Paula Jo Corso Pdf

A record of the First International Women Playwrights Conference, edited to bring out the highlights of discussions. With index, bibliographies of playwrights, and appendix.

Author : Effiong Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781453584910

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Playwriting by Effiong Johnson Pdf

Summary The Nigerian theatre milieu is trapped in a cobweb of strangulating strings. Little wonder, therefore, that its growth has been impaired over the years. The numerous multi-tribal thrusts in Nigeria disallow the full growth and development of theatre forms and trends. The university and other degree-awarding institutions engaged in theatre studies, have not carved out uniquely distinguishing styles that can be said to be theirs. The Nigerian theatre makers themselves are not style-driven and technique-creating. An ideal repertory of form can hardly be identified with them in a sustainable manner. The National Theatre set up as a symbol of the nation's cultural pride, now stands as a totem for the nation's creative shame; The state-owned Cultural Centre Boards are devoid of objectives in focused cultural promotions. Many graduates of the arts-prefer other creative businesses. A few die-hards are bedeviled by frustrating dilemmas as businessmen refuse to patronise theatre because they consider it a wasteful venture, while international agencies shun it because of its profit-making outlook.

Author : Paul C. Castagno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781136630811

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New Playwriting Strategies by Paul C. Castagno Pdf

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms. Paul Castagno builds on the innovative plays of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to investigate groundbreaking new techniques from a broad range of contemporary dramatists, including Sarah Ruhl, Suzan Lori-Parks and Young Jean Lee. New features in this edition include an in-depth study of the adaptation of classical texts in contemporary playwright and the utilizing new technologies, such as YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs to create alternative dramatic forms. The author’s step-by-step approach offers the reader new models for: narrative dialogue character monologue hybrid plays This is a working text for playwrights, presenting a range of illuminating new exercises suitable for everyone from the workshop student to the established writer. New Playwriting Strategies is an essential resource for anyone studying and writing drama today.

Author : Carolyn M. Dunn,Eric Micha Holmes,Les Hunter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003813903

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Decentered Playwriting by Carolyn M. Dunn,Eric Micha Holmes,Les Hunter Pdf

Decentered Playwriting investigates new and alternative strategies for dramatic writing that incorporate non-Western, Indigenous, and underrepresented storytelling techniques and traditions while deepening a creative practice that decenters hegemonic methods. A collection of short essays and exercises by leading teaching artists, playwrights, and academics in the fields of playwriting and dramaturgy, this book focuses on reimagining pedagogical techniques by introducing playwrights to new storytelling methods, traditions, and ways of studying, and teaching diverse narratological practices. This is a vital and invaluable book for anyone teaching or studying playwriting, dramatic structure, storytelling at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, or as part of their own professional practice.

Author : Geo Takach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319404332

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Scripting the Environment by Geo Takach Pdf

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms. It builds on a multi-pronged case study of scripts for documentary film, audio-visual and stage formats, focusing on how the identity of a place is constructed and contested in the face of environmental concerns around fossil-fuel extraction in a globalized, visual society--and specifically on the rising, international public-relations war over Alberta’s stewardship of the tar sands. Each script is followed by discussion of the author’s choices of initiating idea, research sources, format, voices, world of the story, structure and visual style, and other notes on the convergence of synthesis, analysis and (re)presentation in the script. Included are lively analysis and commentary on screenwriting and playwriting theory, the creation and dissemination of the scripts, and reflections to ground a proposed framework for writing eco-themed scripts for screen, audio-visual and stage formats.