The Playwrights Art

Author : Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Art written by Jackson R. Bryer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of January 29, 1948, a new musical, 'Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!', opened at New York's New Adelphi Theatre, marking the Broadway debut of a young playwriting team, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, who were responsible for the show's book. Forty-six years later, Lawrence and Lee are reworking their most recent play, Whisper In The Mind, for a potential New York production, but the intervening decades have seen major changes in the landscape of the American theatre. Many of these changes are discussed and debated in this collection of interviews and are exemplified in the careers of the dramatists included.

Author : Gerald M. Pinciss
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826418265
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Shakespeare written by Gerald M. Pinciss and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays, and analysing their structural and theatrical elements as well as their distinctive language, inventive plotting and unique characters, this book demystifies Shakespeare for theatre lovers. It enables us to step behind the curtain to learn why Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist.

Author : William Packard
Publisher : New York : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Playwright written by William Packard and published by New York : Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Art of the Playwright, William Packard examines the craft in a way that will illuminate theatre for both aspiring playwrights and theatre-goers. He describes the practical art of how plays are made, how to use actions and on-stage visuals, and how to approach the appropriate development of character, dialogue, motifs, plots, and conflicts. He unites theory and practice, giving fresh expression and real relevance to the most important principles of dramatic action.

Author : Roger M. Busfield
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0837157412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Art written by Roger M. Busfield and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971-11-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211449
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Playwrights Talk about when They Talk about Writing written by Jeffrey Sweet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

Author : Joan Herrington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136542124
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Muse written by Joan Herrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August Wilson penned his first play after seeing a man shot to death. Horton Foote began writing plays to create parts for himself as an actor. Edward Albee faced commercial pressures to modify his scripts-and resisted. After Wit, Margaret Edson swore off playwriting altogether and decided to keep her day job as a kindergarten teacher, instead. The Playwright's Muse presents never-before-published interviews with some of the greatest names of American drama-all recent winners of the Pulitzer Prize. In these scintillating exchanges with eleven leading dramatists, we learn about their inspirations and begin to grasp how the creative process works in the mind of a writer. We learn how their first plays took shape, how it felt to read their first reviews, and what keeps them writing for theater today. Introductory essays on each playwright's life and work, written by theater artists and scholars with strong professional relationships to their subjects, provide additional insight into the writers' contributions to contemporary theater.

Author : William Missouri Downs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781337118002
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ART OF THEATRE 4/E written by William Missouri Downs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. M. Pinciss
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Shakespeare written by G. M. Pinciss and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing for a small troupe of men and boys who performed on an almost bare stage, William Shakespeare dramatized an unparalleled range of stories and emotions through his wizardry with words, his uncanny understanding of the human spirit, and his genius for maximizing the talents of his actors. Working under conditions that today we would consider primitive, he made himself into the supreme playwright. Exactly how does Shakespeare achieve his effects? Why does he continue to enthrall audiences performance after performance, night after night, century after century? Can we learn the secrets of his success? By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays (though others receive attention, too), and analyzing their structural and theatrical elements as well as their distinctive language, inventive plotting, and unique characters this book demystifies Shakespeare for all theater lovers. With its down-to-earth and jargon-free approach, Why Shakespeare enables us to step behind the curtain to learn why Shakespeare is considered the greatest dramatist of all time.

Author : Jean-Claude van Italie
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476844836
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Playwright's Workbook written by Jean-Claude van Italie and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.

Author : Jesse Lynch Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Playwriting written by Jesse Lynch Williams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: