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The Art of Dramatic Writing - Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Amid the hundreds of “how-to” books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction This book does just that - and…
The Art of Storytelling - Creative Ideas for Preparation and Performance
Nothing will ever replace the active pleasure of telling and listening to stories Only a live storyteller can impart to a tale that very human touch that brings a gleam of understanding to the listener's…
The Art of the Dramatist - An Anthology of Writings on the Theatre
In these passionate and witty essays on the theatre, J B Priestley distils his experience as a playwright, producer, director and – just once – actor Relishing the past, analysing the present, and predicting…
The Dramatists Toolkit - The Craft of the Working Playwright
This is a practical guide to being a working playwright The author discusses such matters as - the building blocks of playwriting; how characters relate to one another; the differences and similarities…
The Full Room - An A-Z of Contemporary Playwrighting
This work examines how the dramatic works of the 1990s have shaped the New British Theatre movement The playwrights discussed include Billy Roche, Sebastian Barry, Conor MacPherson, David Harrower, Jonathan…
The Hidden Plot - Notes on the Theatre and the State
This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use in history and the present It elucidates on the hidden working of drama behind the state,…
The Insider’s Guide to Writing for Screen and Television
The truth about writing for film and television is examined in this highly instructive book Reveals the creative, political, and financial concerns of writing for film and television in interviews with…
The Internet - A Writer’s Guide
This Second Edition explores how to - - interview, collborate and deliver text using email - join writers circles and reading groups - locate agents, editors, translators and publishers - research both…
The Orton Diaries
Unexpurgated insight into the life of one British theatre's most controversial figure of the 60s From December 1966 until his murder in August 1967, Joe Orton kept a series of diaries that prove to be…
The Playwright as Rebel - Essays in Theatre History
What was it about ancient Greece, Elizabethan England and Racine’s seventeenth-century France that made them particularly able to respond to and create the high points in tragic drama? Where do Molière’s…
