The Playwright's Toolbox

Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays

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The Playwright's Toolbox

Exercises from 56 Contemporary Dramatists on Designing, Building, and Refurbishing Your Plays

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To an unusual degree among writers, playwrights’ creations are not simply words on a page. Instead, a well-wrought play is an intricate machine that will be used by directors, actors, designers, and other creators to bring a fully staged, real-time performance into the world. The construction and maintenance of that machine is the playwright’s job, and it requires an array of complex, interconnected skills and techniques.

Enter Justin Maxwell and The Playwright’s Toolbox, a stimulating and wide-ranging resource for both beginning and experienced dramatists. It brings together invigorating, provocative, and irreverent exercises contributed by nearly 60 leading English-language playwrights, covering all stages of the writing process. It offers an accessible roadmap for those who have never written a play before, while providing new angles and solutions for seasoned writers struggling with a particular challenge. Covered here is everything fromgenerating ideas and world-building, through dialogue and plotting, to revision and the last steps before releasing a play into the world, making this an endlessly useful guide to building better plays.

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Published May 07 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 300
ISBN 9781493077823
Imprint Applause
Illustrations 7 b/w illustrations; 1 table
Dimensions 227 x 151 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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