Playwriting The First Workshop
Kathleen
E George
Associate professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Captures the workshop experience through writing, analyzing and testing plays.
- Contains synopsis and analysis of several well-known plays, such as `The Dining Room'.
- Each chapter provides study questions and exercises that reinforce important concepts.
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This is a practical introduction to the basic
principles, structures and processes of writing plays. Beginning with simple concepts and
exercises, this book gradually builds in complexity, until the reader is writing his or
her one act play.
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Writing plays is unique because feedback, alternative approaches and discussion spur
creativity. This book encourages this and thereby encourages the reader to write. The
reader will discover how stage plays differ from screenplays, novels and television. The
book also describes how autobiographical materials are transformed into playable parts,
and how characters are moved by action. `Playwriting: The first workshop' gives readers
the necessary background to begin working on their first play.
First words; People and things; Characters and props; Playwriting workshops; The
monologue; The pantomime; Dramatic devices; Working on ideas; Internal and external
action; Dramatic characters; Revision; Contemporary forms; Two acts
ISBN: 0240801903 Paperback
Color plates: Line Illustrations: Halftones:
Measurements: 8.5 x 11 In.
Pages: 202
Publication Date: Tuesday, February 01, 1994
Price: $34.99
