To Be A Playwright Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Neipris Janet
Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques necessary to the aspiring playwright. Comprised of a collection of memoirs and lectures which blend seamlessly to deliver a practical hands-on guide to playwriting, this book illuminates the elusive challenges confronting creators of dynamic expression and offers a roadmap to craft of playwrighting.
1. The Twelve Habits of Successful Playwrights 2. A Room of Your Own 3. Fifty Questions to Ask When Writing A Play 4. Character 5. Dialogue: The Ways Our Characters Speak to Us 6. Location: Passports to Playwrighting 7. Endings 8. Rewriting 9. Journals 10. The Making of a Play: "Small Delegation" From Beijing to Home 11. Adapting From Fact and Fiction 12. The Do’s and Don’ts of Playwriting: What I Know to be True 13. Critics 14. The Education of a Playwright 15. What They Told Me: Advice on Writing and Other Vices 16. To Be A Playwright 17. Notes Index
Janet Neipris is an award-winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her previous publications include To Be a Playwright (Routledge, 2006), Natives (2011), Plays by Janet Neipris (2000), and the musical Jeremy and the Thinking Machine, with Barbara Greenberg (2005). Her plays and letters are in the Theatre collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
Date de parution : 02-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 14 jours).
Prix indicatif 40,18 €
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Thème de To Be A Playwright :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; Playwright; Cider House Rules; Theatre; Thomas Wolf; Playwrights; Nelson Mandela; Writing; Iceman Cometh; Play Writing; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Character; Weedpatch Camp; Dialogue; Oven Bird; Character Interaction; Statue Maker; Location; Post Card; Endings; Quiet Country Road; Rewriting; Brown Traveler; Rewrites; Forbidden City; Journals; Making of a Play; Fiction; Non-Fiction; Playwriting Manual; Writing Advice; The Stage; Performance; Acting; Director; Script; Scripts; memoirs and lectures; playwriting; dynamic expression