Playwriting: A Practical Guide,9780415310444

Playwriting: A Practical Guide

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ISBN13: 9780415310444
ISBN10: 041531044X
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Pub. Date: 2005-01-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

What makes a story work? Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance, and contains a wealth of exercises for all individuals and groups involved in making theatre. It can be used in a range of contexts: either as a step-by-step guide to the creation of an individual play, as a handy resource for a teacher or workshop leader, or as a stimulus for the group-devised play. The result of Noel Greig's thirty years' experience as a playwright, actor, director and teacher, Playwriting is the ideal handbook for anyone who engages with playwriting and is ultimately concerned with creating a story and bringing it to life on the stage.

Table of Contents

Preface xii
Acknowledgements xv
1 Getting going and warming up 1(42)
Memory
1(3)
Instant writing
4(6)
Building a character
10(12)
Finding the story
22(5)
Dialogue
27(5)
Plot
32(4)
Theme
36(2)
Location
38(1)
End of the day
39(2)
Language and imagery
41(2)
2 Theme 43(4)
Setting the agenda
44(3)
3 Issue 47(13)
Tackling the issue
48(8)
Issue into theme
56(4)
4 Building a character 60(26)
Being specific about the character
60(17)
Setting the characters in motion
77(7)
Conclusion
84(2)
5 Finding the story 86(33)
Change
87(5)
Subtext
92(7)
Structure 1: Imparting information
99(8)
Structure 2: Fuses and bombs
107(4)
The final outcome
111(6)
Summary
117(2)
6 Location 119(12)
Location as character
121(2)
Location as story-event
123(8)
7 The individual voice 131(26)
Language as music
132(8)
Language as essence
140(7)
Language and feeling
147(1)
Your voice their language
148(4)
The poetry of the everyday
152(2)
The struggle for articulacy
154(2)
Beware of words
156(1)
8 Second draft 157(36)
The big picture
157(5)
Dissecting the text
162(6)
Constant change
168(2)
The foundations of the play
170(4)
Because or if
174(3)
Subplot
177(1)
Character: Objectives
177(1)
Scene-shapes
178(4)
Story-shapes
182(1)
Genre
182(7)
Story-types
189(1)
The Haiku
190(3)
9 Performance projects 193(5)
Exercises into project
193(2)
Twinning
195(3)
Appendix A: Adapting the work to the context 198(2)
Appendix B: Leading the process 200

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