To Be a Playwright

ISBN-13: 9780367183264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Janet Neipris

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.