Release Date:- 2004-10-28
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Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as:a step-by-step guide to the creation of an..
Release Date:- 2023-01-26
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This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus..
Release Date:- 2019-04-18
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For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book,..
Release Date:- 2011-06-28
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The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process. From crystallizing story ideas, formatting the script, understanding the roles of the director stagecraft people, to marketing and financin..
Release Date:- 2015-12-01
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This enhanced edition includes a photo gallery and a foreword by Joel Raphaelson. From the Introduction Letās say the object of this course is to put every student through an experience which will make him realize what it is like to write creativel..
Release Date:- 1987-07-12
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Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary..
Release Date:- 2000-03-01
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Jeffrey Hatcher knows the nuts and bolts of writing for the theater. Here, he shares his views on it all--from building tension and plotting a scene, right down to moving a character from one side of the stage to the other. From crafting an intriguing..
Release Date:- 2011-02-01
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*Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play* *A Broadway production starring Richard Griffiths and Daniel Radcliffe*An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, Equus is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ab..
Release Date:- 2015-11-19
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Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage. PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a ful..
Release Date:- 2021-08-16
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Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.This book incorporates craft lessons by contemporary playwrights and provides concrete guidance fo..
Release Date:- 2021-04-06
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK ā¢ The Pulitzer Prizeāwinning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as ..
Release Date:- 2016-02-16
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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the..
Release Date:- 2021-08-03
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with GeorgePutting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, ..
Release Date:- 2000-06-13
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The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackle..
Release Date:- 2018-10-31
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To write for the theatre you need to know about theatre. Ideas are easy to come by. Examine your background, interest, and beliefs. Examine the world around you. Exercises can help you come up with ideas. Choose the audience you want to reach and write..
Release Date:- 2011-11-08
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Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats'..
Release Date:- 1986-04-12
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For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors,..
Release Date:- 2018-08-14
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Learn how to take your work to the next level with this informative guide on the craft, business, and lifestyle of writing With warmth and humor, Paulette Perhach welcomes you into the writerās life as someone who has once been on the outsid..
Release Date:- 2021-11-09
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The most trusted guide to getting published, fully revised and updatedWant to get published and paid for your writing? Let Writer's Market, 100th edition guide you through the process. It's the ultimate reference with thousands of publishing opportuniti..
Release Date:- 2021-02-16
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Capturing the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquityās greatest comedies, Aaron Poochigianās Aristophanes: Four Plays brings these classic dramas to vivid life for a twenty-first century audience.The citizens of ancient Athens enjo..
Release Date:- 2010-06-29
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Actors! Engage your mind and your body in order to develop your characters fully. The Lucid Body technique breaks up stagnant movement patterns and expands your emotional and physical range. Through energy analysis, this program shows how to use physic..
Release Date:- 2024-09-10
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Open a new portal into Shakespeareās wordsāand his Renaissance lifeāwith math and numbers as your key.Shakespeareās era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of āzeroā to Galileoās redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Ea..
Release Date:- 2018-04-17
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A detailed guide to the collaborative method developed by the acclaimed creators of The Laramie Project and Gross Indecency--destined to become a classic. A Vintage Original.By MoisƩs Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams with Leigh Fondakowski, Andy Par..
Release Date:- 2005-09-01
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In the second edition of this popular guide, actors learn to use their skills to write monologues, performance art pieces, and one-person plays. Updated to include exclusive interviews and tips on marketing, this guide helps actors create their own exciting..
Release Date:- 2017-07-01
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Despite the fact that there is a thriving presence of theatre for young people in todayās society, there is, however, no contemporary guide dedicated to the writing of plays for young people in both professional and educational contexts. We only have..