Do you have an idea for a play? A situation or experience from your home or work life? Fantasy? With helpful, clear examples, taken from his own experiences in teaching, directing and playwriting, Milton Polsky shows how to find and shape a dramatic idea and bring it to fruition. In addition to providing many practical exercises, suggestions and tips, he discusses and illustrates with examples from established playwrights "the importance of giving shape to your idea so that what is in your head and heart can be expressed to the fullest." To facilitate this creative process, there are "What if?", "Just for You," "Playwright's Page" sections; diagrams, journal exercises; and for this revised edition, end of chapter "Suggested Activities for the Classroom" (solo and group); addditional appendices, including one on feedback; and over 50 new photos. This invaluable and basic guide to writing plays is ideal for teachers, students, camp counselors, community theatre leaders - and for anyone who knows there's a play inside, trying to get out!
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This is a great resource for the beginning playwright with tons of production photographs, diagrams and illustrations of the concepts discussed. It discusses everything from the history of plays to discovering ideas to plotting to creating characters, etc. Many other playwriting books give a particular author's style of crafting plays but this book really acts like a resource of various methods of crafting plays. It's also a great supplement to any course on the subject.
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New York, The Odd Couple, Daniel Webster, The Homecoming, Willy Loman, Arthur Miller, Henry Higgins, The Miracle Worker, August Wilson, Miles Standish, West Side Story, Harold Pinter, Jabez Stone, Andrew Crocker-Harris, Oscar Madison, Tennessee Williams, The Ballad of Box Brown, Eliza Doolittle, World War, American Buffalo, David Mamet, Dorothy Gale, Edward Albee, Frank Hunter, Samuel Beckett New!
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Let your eyes glance casually around the room. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dramatic clock, visible stake, opposing characters, beginning playwright, dramatic question, story theatre, cast size, educational theatre, delineate character, many playwrights, dramatic metaphor, buried child, gonna fly Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, The Odd Couple, Daniel Webster, The Homecoming, Willy Loman, Arthur Miller, Henry Higgins, The Miracle Worker, August Wilson, Miles Standish, West Side Story, Harold Pinter, Jabez Stone, Andrew Crocker-Harris, Oscar Madison, Tennessee Williams, The Ballad of Box Brown, Eliza Doolittle, World War, American Buffalo, David Mamet, Dorothy Gale, Edward Albee, Frank Hunter, Samuel Beckett New!
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- American Buffalo by David Mamet on 6 pages
- Browning Version (Acting Edition) by Terence Rattigan on 5 pages
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 5 pages
- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry on 4 pages
- Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville on page 37, page 43, and page 44
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- Writing Your First Play, Second Edition by Roger Hall in Back Matter
- Projects for New Technologies in Education: Grades 6-9 by Norma Heller on page 71
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