Playwriting Strategies: Language-Based Approach To Playwritin

Description: This is a new text for courses in playwriting. The author has developed a way of explaining and teaching how a playwright can make a character, narrative structure and dialogue work on stage and on the page. His approach is fresh, and draws from the energies and theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I. The Language Playwright Chapter 1. The Playwright's Two Voices Chapter 2. Dialogic Applications and Practices Part II. The Dramaturgy of New Playwriting: From Building Blocks to Revision Chapter 3. The Poetics of New Playwriting Chapter 4. Defining, Rewriting and Refining the Script Part III. Monologic Structures: From Orthodoxy to Innovation Chapter 5. 'Show us, don't tell us' Chapter 6. Toward Dialogic Monologue in New Playwriting Part IV. Formulating Character Chapter 7. Establishing New Approaches to Character Chapter 8. Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: Stage Figuresto Arhetypes Chapter 9. Eric Overmyr: Some Principles of Character Transformation Chapter 10. Mac Wellman: Language-based Chraracter Works Cited Index