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The Playwright’s Guidebook - An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing. During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective playwriting handbook for his courses…
The Playwright’s Process - Learning the Craft from Today’s Leading Dramatists
This details the entire process of developing the kernel of an idea into a fully-realised play The process of laying the basic building blocks of dramatic structure, character, dialogue is interwoven with…
The Playwright’s Voice - American Dramatists on Memory & Writing and the Politics of Culture
In extensive interviews, they discuss their work, influences and their craft and how the art form relates to our cultural heritage, as well as the state of theatre-its-meaning and purposes The fifteen…
The Playwright’s Workbook
Among the subjects covered ... - Conflict and Character: The Dominant Image; Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller - Dialogue and the Spoken Word: Overheard Voices; Ibsen and Shakespeare - Creating the…
The Secret Life of Plays
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 Skeleton Key - Unlocking the Secrets of Writing Outstanding Plays For and By Young People
The Skeleton Key is for anyone - writers, directors, teachers, students - anyone interested in making new plays which have a writer at the heart of the process It offers an insight into how leading professional…
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
An idea for a play can be sparked off by a childhood memory, a snatch of conversation, a chance meeting, a newspaper headline… This guide offers a practical and comprehensive approach to every stage…
The Stage Writers Handbook - A Complete Business Guide for Playwrights & Composers & Lyricists and Librettists
Written in a straightforward manner, with complicated matters clearly explained, this is truly a work no writer for the stage can afford to be without Here, for the first time, Dana Singer gathers the…
The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller
The twenty-three essays and three interviews collected here give us Arthur Miller's views on the theatre including such topics as the origins of modern drama, the nature of tragedy, what makes plays endure,…
The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht
This classic study of Brecht’s theatre from eight different aspects was first published in 1959 The book aims to explain the difficult aspects of his ideology and political leanings in a straightforward…
