Playwriting-in-Process was created to provide a resource, a craft-reminder/reinforcer, a stimulus, a self teaching mechanism, and a reference work.
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Playing Brings Out Your Play:
Writers who invest themselves in the art for the long term are always looking for ways to improve their skill. And playwrights are always seeking the best way to express their material for performance, rather than literary, purposes. This book combines both pursuits.
Using the games format familiar to any of us who have spent any time onstage, Michael Wright gives writers an opportunity to find what works for them, a chance to devise their own style. Much more free than the prescriptivist style favored by... more info
zen and the art of playwriting:
while books on the craft and science of playwriting are a dime a dozen in the market, this is probably the one and only book that teaches the ART of playwriting. forget all about those books that teaches you the formulas to write or compose a play, because playwriting is not a science but an art.
Work Your Playwriting Muscles!:
Michael Wright's book offers you a jillion different exercises to stoke your creative furnace. It is a manual that I use for my intermediate-level playwrights to work their playwriting chops. He breaks down the playwriting exercises or "etudes" into several areas including Technique Etudes, Character Etudes, Plot Etudes, Etudes for Structure, Collaboration Etudes, and Unblocking Etudes. Most importantly however, his guiding principal is based on theatricality or "why must this story be told on the stage?"... more info
Playwriting can be taught!:
I just finished teaching a two-week intensive playwriting course in which a combination of novices and former self-proclaimed failures at playwriting were asked to complete a ten-minute play. The course was a success, mostly because all of the students actually completed a draft of a ten-minute play. All were acceptable, many showed great potential, and at least two could be produced as they stood at the end of the session. The reason for success? All of the students were ultimately able to drop their... more info
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