Review\n“As I embarked on my first playwriting commission, I felt lost, underqualified, and afraid. The Blunt Playwright became a companion to me during my playwriting journey, and filled in the gaps in my knowledge and training. It was simple but significant, easily digestible, and gave me the tools I needed to put my fear aside and start writing!” (Emily Dallas, author of Brave Girl)\n“I use The Blunt Playwright for all of my playwriting classes and for myself because it’s a system of writing that works, is easily understood, and clearly makes sense about process and structure.” (Aaron Bushkowsky, Creative Writing Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and award-winning author of After Jerusalem and My Chernobyl)\n“The Blunt Playwright is a great resource for both emerging and established playwrights. I have kept a copy on my desk for the last ten years where it can easily be found when I need it ... which is often.” (Meg Braem, Co-director of the Alberta Theatre Projects Playwrights Unit and award-winning author of Blood: A Scientific Romance and The Josephine Knot)\n“Clem Martini is blunt, all right — and passionate, challenging, deadly serious, and wryly witty. He covers all the techniques that a playwright might need at any stage while ardently championing this muchmisunderstood art form, and from a welcome Canadian perspective.” (John Lazarus, Associate Professor at Queen’s University and award-winning playwright of Babel Rap and The Grandkid)\nThe Blunt Playwright won’t tell you everything there is to know about playwriting. It won’t even try. What it will do is examine process, structure, dialogue, and character; provide classic and contemporary scenes to study; outline clever exercises to strengthen writing skills; and so much more. Highly regarded and used in schools everywhere, this updated edition cements its place as one of the best resources for playwrights. 
From organizing the structure of a script to developing characters’ voices, from employing visual effects on stage to writing comedy, or from self-promotion to getting produced and published, this guide has something for everyone, no matter the stage of their career.

The Blunt Playwright: Second Edition

Arts & Photography

Martini, Clem

Performing Arts

Playwrights Canada Press

The Mob (Crow Chronicles)

Children's Books

Animals

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

In the second installment of Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles, a mysterious plague hits the Kinaar family. Crows lie dead all around the Gathering Tree and the terrified survivors scatter. Sick and alone, Kyp knows only that he must find Kym, who has been captured by humans and taken far to the east. A crow without a flock flies on only one wing, and Kyp has no one to keep watch or provide warning when danger threatens. But gradually other crows join him in his relentless journey -- deep into the heart of a vast and frightful human colony.

The Plague (Crow Chronicles)

Action & Adventure

Judgment (Crow Chronicles)

Three teenagers escape a group home for young offenders, intent on fleeing to the west coast. They decide to burglarize houses to raise funds for their expedition...but suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage of the first house they break into.

Illegal Entry

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

The Blunt Playwright guides new students of playwriting through the intricacies of playwriting in a direct, informative, and entertaining fashion. It examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites local and international playwrights throughout.

The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting

Explores in the words of those who participated in the growth of this theater hybrid how theatresports sprang to life and has grown into an international league spanning four continents.

Something Like a Drug: An Unauthorized Oral History of Theatresports

Foreman, Kathleen

Red Deer Press

One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years: A History of Wood's Homes as Told by the People Who Lived and Worked There

For 100 years, Wood’s Homes has offered a lifeline to children and their families who have nowhere else to turn. A multiservice, non-profit children’s mental health organization based in Calgary, Wood’s Homes serves communities throughout Alberta and in the Northwest Territories. In honour of the 100th anniversary of Wood’s Homes in 2014, this collection of 100 stories celebrates the deep and lasting impact the organization has had on those who have lived and worked there. The stories—sometimes quirky, sometimes raw, but always coming from the heart—also reveal the dramatic changes in the needs of young people and their communities over the last century.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Brush Education

Titus Maccius Plautus' career is on the decline. Once renound for bringing Greek comedies to the Roman world, now he struggles to stage a single play. Unlucky with money and unlucky in love, Plautus faces the world with wry dignity. This could be the performance that brings back fame and fortune, or the one that ends it all. Engaging, thoughtful, and funny, The Comedian dives into the rough and tumble world of arts in its infancy. Clem Martini draws on his talent and experience to bring to life the signs and sounds of a world where playwrights suffered and succeeded—but mostly suffered.

The Comedian (Brave & Brilliant, 6)

Humor & Satire

University of Calgary Press

The Mob is the saga of a crow family, the Kinaars, who are faced with troubled times. When the family converges for the annual Gathering, a mob mounts a revenge attack on a cat -- with disastrous consequences. The Gathering should be a time to rejoice. Instead, it becomes a time of fear, danger and uncertainty, when ancient laws and customs are tested. A tribunal passes judgment -- the instigator of the mob, the impulsive and charismatic Kyp, must be punished. Then, just when the Kinaars are divided over The Mob attack, an unexpected blizzard spells more trouble. They desperately need a safe roost. The family splits, leaving the Gathering Tree to seek shelter in forbidden worlds ?

The Mob: Feather and Bone (The Crow Chronicles)

Kids Can Press

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