The Elements Of Playwriting

Author : Louis E. Catron,Norman A. Bert
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478636885

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The Elements of Playwriting by Louis E. Catron,Norman A. Bert Pdf

Louis Catron imbued experienced and fledgling playwrights with inspiration, guidance, and a passport to maximizing their writing skills as well as their overall ability to transform written words into a stage production. He understood that being a playwright is more than putting pen to paper. It involves expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a play’s action, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring the work to life. In the second edition Norman Bert infuses the enduring merits of Catron’s original work with examples, technological developments, and trends geared to today’s readers. Bert’s play references are familiar to contemporary students, including examples from plays written since 2000. He includes useful information on web-based research and the electronic submission process. A new chapter focuses on the playwright’s responsibility to lay the groundwork for production elements like casting, design, theatre architecture as it impacts audience–performer relationships, staging modes, and the uses and expectations of stage directions. Also new to this edition are reading resources for delving deeper into topics discussed.

Author : Angelo Parra
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118017227

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Playwriting For Dummies by Angelo Parra Pdf

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financing your project, and incorporating professional insights on writing, there are plenty of ins and outs that every aspiring playwright needs to know. But where can you turn for guidance? Playwriting For Dummies helps any writer at any stage of the process hone their craft and create the most dramatic and effective pieces. Guides you through every process of playwriting?from soliloquies, church skits, and one act plays to big Broadway musicals Advice on moving your script to the public stage Guidance on navigating loopholes If you're an aspiring playwright looking to begin the process, or have already penned a masterpiece and need trusted advice to bring it into the spotlight, Playwriting For Dummies has you covered.

Author : Louis E. Catron
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0020692919

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The Elements of Playwriting by Louis E. Catron Pdf

With an infectious enthusiasm for the theatre, Louis E. Catron here presents the basic principles of playwriting, including plot, dialogue, and character development, as well as the more complex issues of creating multi-dimensional characters and writing stage-worthy plays that attract producers and audiences. An invaluable guide for both beginning and advanced playwrights or anyone involved in theatre.

Author : Jacqueline Goldfinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Aristotle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547403319

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Poetics by Aristotle Pdf

The Poetics of Aristotle is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry". In this reflections Aristotle includes verse drama – comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play – as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry. The similarities and differences are being described in this work.

Author : Louis E. Catron
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015006279379

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Writing, Producing, and Selling Your Play by Louis E. Catron Pdf

Author : Roger Hall
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136082146

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Writing Your First Play by Roger Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Sam Smiley,Norman A. Bert
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300128505

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Playwriting by Sam Smiley,Norman A. Bert Pdf

The incidence of melanoma has increased by 2000% since 1930 and one person dies each hour from the disease. This cutting edge guide provides scientifically accurate information which patients and their families need, to understand melanoma and its treatment and to receive necessary reassurance. It is also a vitally important resource for those who want information about preventing the disease or finding it early when it is most curable. Catherine M. Poole, a melanoma survivor and melanoma patient advocate for many organisations, and Dr. DuPont Guerry, an internationally renowned melanoma expert, have collaborated to provide current, correct and easily understood information on the disease. The authors have had first-hand contact with a multitude of patients with melanoma, and they understand exactly how to empower patients to gain control of their situations and obtain the best treatment.

Author : Jeffery Hatcher
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781599634432

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The Art and Craft of Playwriting by Jeffery Hatcher Pdf

Jeffrey Hatcher knows the nuts and bolts of writing for the theater. Here, he shares his views on it all--from building tension and plotting a scene, right down to moving a character from one side of the stage to the other. From crafting an intriguing beginning to delivering a satisfying ending. In Hatcher's one-on-one discussions with acclaimed American playwrights Lee Blessing, Marsha Norman and Jose Rivera, you'll find a wealth of practical advice, tricks of the trade and insight that will help you in your own creative efforts.

Author : Steve Waters
Publisher : Nick Hern Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1848420005

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The Secret Life of Plays by Steve Waters Pdf

A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters. Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing - scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images - to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism. Almost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis. The Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre - and wants to know why. 'Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore...' Steve Waters 'Steve Waters' book is like his plays: clear, elegant and stimulating throughout' David Edgar

Author : J.H. Lawson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : History
ISBN : 9785882091117

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Theory and technique of playwriting by J.H. Lawson Pdf

With a new introduction.

Author : Stephen Jeffreys
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1559369728

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Playwriting by Stephen Jeffreys Pdf

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 : Richard Toscan
Publisher : Franz Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780615608211

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Playwriting Seminars 2.0 by Richard Toscan Pdf

Playwriting Seminars is "a treasure-trove of information, philosophy, and inspiration" (Theatre Journal), "an absolutely essential guide to all aspects of playwriting and a valuable whitewater raft trip down the rapids of Hollywood screenwriting" (Magellan), and "a terrific learning environment for writers" (WebCrawler Select). It was also a recommended resource for playwrights at New Dramatists (NYC). The Handbook's initial concepts came from the author's work with Lucasfilm and the BBC. It was originally developed for playwrights and screenwriters, but has since been used by writers of fiction and nonfiction books. This new edition covers all aspects of writing full-length plays with an expanded treatment of screenwriting for Hollywood and independent film as well as diagrams of key elements of dramatic structure. Playwriting techniques are explained with many examples from classic and contemporary plays performed today by America's regional theatres as well as on Broadway and Off-Broadway. The 392 page Handbook explains the interconnections between characters and plot and the importance of subtext to character development in the contemporary theatre (what characters don't tell us matters as much as what they say in dialogue). Key exercises are included for developing "voice" as a writer and for creating the essential dual plot structure that supports intriguing characters in today's theatre. Many professionals in theatre and film are quoted on key parts of the art and craft of playwriting and screenwriting to help explain effective techniques. Special sections of the Handbook focus on getting inspiration and avoiding writer's block, editing first drafts, professional script formats for theatre and film (including software), how to launch new scripts, putting together submission packages for theatres and competitions, how to write an effective script synopsis and writer's bio, working with directors, actors and agents, how to survive audience "talkbacks" following readings and workshop productions, methods to adjust your playwriting skills for screenwriting and television work, and options for making a living at the craft of dramatic writing.

Author : David Ball
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 0809311100

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Backwards and Forwards by David Ball Pdf

"Considered an essential text since its publication thirty-five years ago, this guide for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts

Author : Effiong Johnson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.