The Elements of Playwriting

With an infectious enthusiasm for the theatre, Louis E. Catron here presents the basic principles of playwriting, including plot, dialogue, and character development, as well as the more complex issues of creating multi-dimensional characters and writing stage-worthy plays that attract producers and audiences. An invaluable guide for both beginning and advanced playwrights or anyone involved in theatre.

Catron, Louis E.

Literature & Fiction

Pearson P T R

How to write stageworthy plays, develop your theater sense, create theatrical characters, shape plot and dialogue, and find the resources to get your play produced (and that's just the subtitle). Includes advice on working with actors and script layout, excerpts from plays, and the ideas of some of the greats. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play

Business & Money

PRENTICE/HALL

A practical guidebook for effective playwriting! This imaginative and enthusiastic book is designed especially for those having the desire to create, to entertain, and to express their emotions and ideas. It features a practical, down-to- earth emphasis on craft and structure rather than on theory as its step-by-step approach shows just what's involved in creating a stageworthy play. Coverage includes basic considerations such as plot and character development, theme and dialogue as well as production and publication considerations. Outstanding features: offers concrete writing guidelines; includes exercises that get the reader going and inspirational anecdotes; presents excerpts from such classics as Macbeth, The Glass Menagerie, and The Dumb Waiter that help the reader grasp key concepts; lists plays to read for instruction; includes valuable information not usually found in comparable collections.

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Prentice Hall Direct

Catron offers an outstanding guide for anyone interested in working in this form.

Power of One, The: The Solo Play for Playwrights, Actors, and Directors

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann Drama

The second volume of 1/2/3/4 For the Show, is an invaluable guide to the important, though sometimes overlooked, small-cast, one-act plays. Response to the first volume, released in 1995, indicated the need for a second. In this follow-up, Lewis Heniford describes more than 2,200 plays. For each play, Heniford provides astonishingly rich detail, including synopses, quotations from other sources, publishers, themes, quotes from reviewers, even ISBN numbers for easy identification of available versions. Heniford has anticipated his audience's needs, and provides the proper tools to best assist them―users can reference the plays through the Author Index, the Cast Size/Gender Index, or the Title Index. This work and its accompanying volume will be a significant addition to all educational and public libraries. It will be an indispensable resource for directors, teachers (high school and college), actors, and all one-act fans.

1/2/3/4 For the Show

Heniford, Lewis W.

Scarecrow Press

This dynamic, practical text focuses equally on the arts of interpretation and problem-solving. The author leads students through short, lucid chapters to develop an organized, step-by-step methodology from play analysis through casting, rehearsal, and performance.

The Director's Vision: Play Direction from Analysis to Production

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

A practical guidebook for effective playwriting! This imaginative and enthusiastic book is designed especially for those having the desire to create, to entertain, and to express their emotions and ideas. It features a practical, down-to- earth emphasis on craft and structure rather than on theory as its step-by-step approach shows just what's involved in creating a stageworthy play. Coverage includes basic considerations such as plot and character development, theme and dialogue as well as production and publication considerations. Outstanding features: offers concrete writing guidelines; includes exercises that get the reader going and inspirational anecdotes; presents excerpts from such classics as Macbeth, The Glass Menagerie, and The Dumb Waiter that help the reader grasp key concepts; lists plays to read for instruction; includes valuable information not usually found in comparable collections.

Playwriting: Writing Producing and Selling Your Play

Waveland Pr Inc.

For those interested in learning and honing the art and craft of creative playwriting! With an infectious enthusiasm for the theater, Catron presents the basic principles of playwriting, including plot, dialogue, and character development, as well as the more complex issues of creating multi-dimensional characters and writing stageworthy plays that will attract producers, directors, actors, and audiences. Throughout, he sprinkles examples from classical and modern plays, provides exercises for sharpening and developing skills, and offers practical guidelines on working with actors and directors, getting produced and published, and finding an agent. Favoring concrete advice over theory, The Elements of Playwriting is an invaluable resource for both beginning and advanced playwrights and for anyone involved in the art and craft of theater. Special features: 1) provides step-by-step techniques for improving a play; 2) includes information about copyright, agents, organizations, and references; and 3) offers end-of-chapter exercises for fine-tuning creative application of topics discussed.

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The Elements of Playwriting

The Elements of Playwriting

Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play

Writing, Producing and Selling Your Play

Power of One, The: The Solo Play for Playwrights, Actors, and Directors

1/2/3/4 For the Show

The Director's Vision: Play Direction from Analysis to Production

Playwriting: Writing Producing and Selling Your Play

The Elements of Playwriting