Young Playwrights 101

Author : Jonathan Charles Dorf
Publisher : Young Playwrights 101
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781599710693

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Young Playwrights 101 by Jonathan Charles Dorf Pdf

YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is a complete playwriting course that uses easy-to-follow lessons and practical exercises to guide playwrights from idea through submission. While it was originally written with young playwrights and their teachers in mind, you dont have to be a student or drama teacher to benefit from YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101: no matter what your age or experience, if youre looking for detailed, no-nonsense advice about the craft and business of playwriting-and to write plays that will actually be produced-this is the resource for you. Here are just a few examples of topics youll find inside: Creating Characters Conflict Play Structure Choosing the Right Setting The "Question" of the Play How to Use an Outline Handling Exposition Using Punctuation to Write Better Dialogue Opening and Ending Your Play The Writing Process Dealing with Writer's Block Choosing the Best Title Recentering Your Play Rewriting Using the Expanded Writer's Web and Troubleshooter's Checklist How to Have a Useful Play Reading The Playwright's Bill of Rights and much, much more Whether youre writing your first play, want to brush up on your skills or are looking for that missing something in your writing, YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 101 is the jumpstart you need to write plays that make it to the stage.

Author : Jonathan Dorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:1117112075

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Young Playwrights 101 by Jonathan Dorf Pdf

Author : Walter Kerr
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0871293323

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How Not to Write a Play by Walter Kerr Pdf

"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

Author : Jonathan Dorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1623841011

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Thank You for Flushing My Head in the Toilet, and Other Rarely Used Expressions by Jonathan Dorf Pdf

For Achilles and Helen, getting bullied is a dismal fact of life -- Achilles regularly has his head flushed in the toilet, and Helen invents reasons to arrive late to school so she can avoid a vicious clique. When cool girl Glinda magically materializes and offers them a way out, they each jump at the chance. But Glinda's solution is to turn them into the very people who have tormented them. Can Achilles and Helen find another way out?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0871293765

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Sometimes I Wake Up in the Middle of the Night by Anonim Pdf

Author : HowExpert,Marsh Cassady
Publisher : HowExpert
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781647587291

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Playwriting 101 by HowExpert,Marsh Cassady Pdf

To write for the theatre you need to know about theatre. Ideas are easy to come by. Examine your background, interest, and beliefs. Examine the world around you. Exercises can help you come up with ideas. Choose the audience you want to reach and write to that audience. To learn to write dialogue listen to and record everyday conversations. Dialogue should sound like ordinary conversations but has more direction. Know as much as you can about your central characters. Do a character analysis. Choose the character traits to emphasize. A character should come across as both typical and individual. Most plays have a plot, which involves conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist. The parts of a plot are: inciting incident, rising action, turning point, climax, and falling action. Other types of organization for a play are circular and thematic. Before starting to write, you need to develop a central idea. Plays exist for a number of reasons—entertainment, to bring attention to something, and to teach. You need to decide what you want to accomplish. It’s easier to gain an audience’s interest if you start with a theme they agree with. A play needs a sense of universality. A play should be unified, but it also needs contrast. Since theatre is a collaborative art, the director, actor, and designers may see the different facets differently than you do. It’s not difficult to have a well-written produced. Possible markets are schools, organizations, and professional theatre. Finished plays have to follow a particular format. About the Expert Marsh Cassady has had thirty-eight plays published and/or produced—including Off-Broadway. A former theatre professor with a Ph.D. degree, he started a playwriting program at Montclair State in New Jersey that included beginning and advanced classes, workshops, and individual projects. He also taught creative writing, including playwriting, at UCSD. Marsh is the author of sixty published books in a variety of genres from theatre textbooks to novels to true crime, and hundreds of shorter pieces. For about thirty-five years he led all-genre writing workshops in San Diego and in Rosarito, BC, Mexico, where he has lived since 1997. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0871291363

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Snap Judgements by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350146242

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I and You by Lauren Gunderson Pdf

“Sharp and funny. Gunderson taps into a buoyant spirit ... the touching 'barbaric yawp' (Whitman's phrase) of these two deeply engaging kids.” The Washington Post Housebound by illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only social media for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in – uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman's poetry and a school project due the next day... Caroline is unimpressed, but an unlikely friendship develops and a seemingly mundane piece of homework starts to reveal the pair's hopes and dreams - as well as a deep and mysterious bond that connects them even further. Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2014. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Julie Felise Dubiner.

Author : Augustin J Correro
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781455625352

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Tennessee Williams 101 by Augustin J Correro Pdf

Like an alchemist, Tennessee would dip his pen in reality and make fiction out of it. This journey through his life focuses on the influence of specific people and places on selected works.

Author : Wilma Marcus Chandler
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Directing Theater 101 by Wilma Marcus Chandler Pdf

What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a director? How do you get started? What is the best way for actors, designers, and crew to work with directors? This guide provides regional theater companies and new directors with the knowledge and tools they need to produce successful shows. Drawing on years of experience directing and producing plays, Wilma Marcus Chandler covers such topics as: * How to read and analyze a script and really understand it * How to visualize your show * How to get started, researching and thinking about concept, music, lights, sound, costumes * How to hold auditions * How to talk to your case and crew--and how to listen * How to stage a play, using blocking, body movement, stage business, exits and entrances * How to prepare a production, including rehearsal techniques, time lines, budgets, royalties, publicity * How to prepare a career in directing

Author : Karl Iglesias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440527890

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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglesias Pdf

Takes a look into the lives and workspaces of screenwriters, who share their best practices in their own writing careers.

Author : Moynan King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770917977

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Queer/play by Moynan King Pdf

Queer / Play includes plays, performances, interviews, and more, shining a light on important and radical voices in Canada's performance community. Through these works by both emerging and established Canadian queer artists, this diverse anthology finds itself at the intersection of queer life and art, delving into the resulting subcultures and always-changing concepts of identity and performance. In this book, queer is not just something someone is; it's also something they do.

Author : Jonathan Dorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1620882671

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Rumors of Polar Bears by Jonathan Dorf Pdf

A ragtag band of teens struggles for survival in the face of a climate induced catastrophe. Despite having to scavenge for food and water, they find fun where they can, frolicking in the "party pool" and forgetting themselves just long enough to be teenagers. But when they are forced to flee their makeshift home, they'll encounter everything from unfinished coloring books and failing paradises to a frozen-in-time former pre-kindergarten drama class, deadly bikers determined to turn the chaos into their own new world order, and a mysterious people that even the bikers won't cross. As the road takes its toll, will the teen refugees follow Deme, their leader, and chase after the rumored polar bears that she believes are the key to their long-term survival, or will the little patchwork family fall apart?

Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher : Stage Partners
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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101 Breakups by Jason Pizzarello Pdf

The one where you'll feel all the feelings, but most especially, you'll feel hilariously moved in this dram-com that's bound to break your heart. 101 times. Comedy/Drama One-act. 30-35 minutes 10-50 actors, gender flexible

Author : J.H. Lawson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 9785882091117

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

With a new introduction.