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Description
This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks, examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone their craft.
Table of Contents
1. What Does a Playwright Do?
2. How to have Ideas
3. Monologue
4. (How) Can We Learn from Aristotle?
5. Structure
6. Form
7. Plot vs. Story
8. Time and Place
9. Making a Scene
10. Dialogue and Subtext
11. Character
12. Writing Your Play
13. Getting It Staged
Notes
Further Reading
Product details

Published | Feb 23 2023 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 160 |
ISBN | 9781350135833 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Dimensions | 6 x 5 inches |
Series | National Theatre Backstage Guides |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |