Problems of the Playwright

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Total Pages : 508 pages
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Book Synopsis Problems of the Playwright by : Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Download or read book Problems of the Playwright written by Clayton Meeker Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Subversive Copy Editor

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226734102
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis The Subversive Copy Editor by : Carol Fisher Saller

Download or read book The Subversive Copy Editor written by Carol Fisher Saller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it’s not a post-face." In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests new strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks to writers themselves. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller’s own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It’s how I know things." Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can also make trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry that says "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter even addresses the special concerns of freelance editors. Saller’s emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don’ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor.

Audience and the Playwright

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835628
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Book Synopsis Audience and the Playwright by : Mayo Simon

Download or read book Audience and the Playwright written by Mayo Simon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Structured as an evening in the theatre, this book is analytical but straightforward, serious but entertaining. Mayo Simon presents a working playwright's view of what really happens between the stage and the audience, from the beginning of the play until the end." --BOOK JACKET.

Pipeline

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Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573706816
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Book Synopsis Pipeline by : Dominique Morisseau

Download or read book Pipeline written by Dominique Morisseau and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

The Problem of the American Playwright

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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Problem of the American Playwright by : John Robinson Wilkins

Download or read book The Problem of the American Playwright written by John Robinson Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Playwright's Guidebook

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429934212
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Guidebook by : Stuart Spencer

Download or read book The Playwright's Guidebook written by Stuart Spencer and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2002-03-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise guide to playwriting to awaken creativity, from a playwright who has taught the subject for over a decade. “If you want to be a playwright, here’s your bible.” —David Lindsay-Abaire, author of Fuddy Meers and Wonder of the World During the more than ten years that Sturt Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses. Although most of the currently popular guides contain useful ideas, they all suffer from the same problems: poor organizations; quirky, idiosyncratic advice; and abstract theorizing on the nature of art. As a result, they fail to offer any concrete information or useful guidelines on how to construct a well-written play. Moreover, few of these books are actually written by working playwrights. Out of frustration, Spencer wrote his own. The result, The Playwright’s Guidebook, is a concise and engaging handbook full of the kind of wisdom that comes naturally with experience. Spencer presents a coherent way of thinking about playwriting that addresses the important principles of structure, includes insightful writing exercises that build upon one another, explores the creative process, and troubleshoots recurrent problems that playwrights actually face. “The Playwright’s Guidebook is indispensable. Clearly and thoroughly, Mr. Spencer—a playwright himself—leads all playwrights (not only the beginner) through the travails of creation and the jungle of production.” —Edward Albee “Eureka! A clearly written, well-structured, intelligent how-to book about playwriting. Like the good teacher and good writer that he is, Stuart Spencer guides rather than browbeats. Should be next to the laptop of any aspiring, or working, playwright.” —Warren Leight, author of Side Man

The Hard Problem

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190502
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hard Problem by : Tom Stoppard

Download or read book The Hard Problem written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above all don’t use the word good as though it meant something in evolutionary science. The Hard Problem is a tour de force, exploring fundamental questions of how we experience the world, as well as telling the moving story of a young woman whose struggle for understanding her own life and the lives of others leads her to question the deeply held beliefs of those around her. Hilary, a young psychology researcher at the Krohl Institute for Brain Science, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question. She and other researchers at the institute are grappling with what science calls the “hard problem”—if there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? What Hilary discovers puts her fundamentally at odds with her colleagues, who include her first mentor and one-time lover, Spike; her boss, Leo; and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one.

Children of Killers

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822233053
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Book Synopsis Children of Killers by : Katori Hall

Download or read book Children of Killers written by Katori Hall and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The president of Rwanda is releasing the killers. Years after the Tutsi genocide, the perpetrators begin to trickle back into the country side to be reunited with their villages. A trio of friends—born during the genocide’s bloody aftermath—prepare to meet the men who gave them life. But as the homecoming day draws closer, the young men are haunted by the sins of their fathers. Who can you become when violence is your inheritance?

The Road to Mecca

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Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573660184
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis The Road to Mecca by : Athol Fugard

Download or read book The Road to Mecca written by Athol Fugard and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Playwright as Thinker

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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright as Thinker by : Eric Bentley

Download or read book The Playwright as Thinker written by Eric Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sharp witty study of the contemporary theater and its playwrights by one if its severest critics."--P. [4] of cover.

Life as a Playwright

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474285104
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Life as a Playwright by : Jon Klein

Download or read book Life as a Playwright written by Jon Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the questions central to any playwright's career and identity, Jon Klein offers you a glimpse into a career writing for the theatre. As well as an account of the day-to-day life of a writer, he also discusses what an aspiring playwright should expect as they navigate the industry and how to make yourself stand out from the crowd. Furthermore, the book looks at situations that the emerging playwright is likely to encounter, including: handling rehearsals, workshops, castings, re-writing, venues, reviews, successes and failure. The book concludes with seventeen interviews with other USA-based playwrights, representing a wide range of experience, from writers just starting to make a name for themselves to seasoned, award-winning veterans such as Sheila Callaghan, Steven Dietz, Keith Glover, Lauren Gunderson, John Pielmeier and Jen Silverman. Author Jon Klein has a wealth of experience with over 30 of his plays produced in the USA and over 100 productions, including include T Bone N Weasel, Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Betty the Yeti, and his most recent play, Resolving Hedda. Klein draws upon the lessons he has learned from his associations with numerous established theatre folk, many from the start of their careers. These include figures such as Bob Falls, Gregory Hines, Jon Jory, Kenny Leon, Dan Sullivan, and August Wilson.clude figures such as Bob Falls, Gregory Hines, Jon Jory, Kenny Leon, Dan Sullivan, and August Wilson.

A More Perfect Ten

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585104574
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Book Synopsis A More Perfect Ten by : Gary Garrison

Download or read book A More Perfect Ten written by Gary Garrison and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important 10-minute festival opportunities, new sample 10-minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.

Playwriting

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 9781559369725
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Book Synopsis Playwriting by : Stephen Jeffreys

Download or read book Playwriting written by Stephen Jeffreys and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential guide to the craft of playwriting, from the author of The Libertine, reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play.

The Playwright's Workbook

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1476844836
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (768 download)

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Book Synopsis The Playwright's Workbook by : Jean-Claude van Italie

Download or read book The Playwright's Workbook written by Jean-Claude van Italie and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A series of 13 written workshops covering: conflict and character: the dominant image: Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; Overheard voices: Ibsen and Shakespeare; The solo performance piece: listening for stories; Terror and vulnerability: Ionesco; The point of absurdity: creating without possessing: Pinter and Beckett; and much more.

Getting Out

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204398
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Getting Out by : Marsha Norman

Download or read book Getting Out written by Marsha Norman and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Released from prison Arlene returns to a rundown apartment in Louisville, intent on starting her life over. Rebellious and disruptive as a young girl, she has found strength in religion and wants to put her youth (as Arlie) behind he

Integrated Practice

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ISBN 13 : 0195317076
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Integrated Practice by : Pedro de Alcantara

Download or read book Integrated Practice written by Pedro de Alcantara and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be a musician is to "speak music." When you have something to say and the means to say it, your gestures and sounds become both meaningful and free. Offering an innovative, comprehensive approach to musicians' health and wellbeing, Integrated Practice gives you the tools to combine total-body awareness with a deep and practical understanding of the rhythmic structure of the musical language, so that you can use the musical text itself as your guide toward psychophysical and creative freedom. The book shows you how to establish an imaginative dialogue between the relatively inflexible structure of music and your individual personality as a singer, instrumentalist, or conductor, and it explains how you can use the acoustic phenomenon of the harmonic series to make big, beautiful sounds with little muscular effort. Integrated Practice comes with more than a hundred and fifty exercises demonstrated by video and audio clips on an extensive companion website that will inform your daily practice, improvising, rehearsing, and performing. With this array of resources for every learning style, Integrated Practice is the essential handbook to personal achievement in successful, expressive musical performance.

Tom Stoppard in Conversation

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065615
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Tom Stoppard in Conversation written by Tom Stoppard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words