Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing

????Introduction Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing??


1?An Organic Approach to Magic and Theatricality


2?How to Use This Book


1???The Dreamwright Workshop ?Relaxation, The Trance State, and Daydreaming???

1?Building your Dream Cache: Keeping a Dream Journal


2?A Dream Example


3?A Dream, 8/27/22, Madrid, Spain, Titled: The Bearded Man???


4?Step 1 - The Warm-Up - Getting into the Flow


5?Basic Writer's Physical Warm-Up


6?Shoulder Warm-Up


7?Neck Warm-Up


8?Back Warm-Up


9?Breath Work


10?Relaxation Exercise


11?Step 2 - Devising Your Dream Cache - Gathering the Stuff of Your Imagination


12?Initial Dream Prompts


13?Dramatic Element Prompts


14?Desires


15?Problems/Obstacles


16?Feelings


17?Questions


18?People


19?Events


20?Places


21?Animals


22?Plants


23?Objects


24?The Next Step - Creating with Dream Elements


25?Step 3- Writing a Dream - Freeing Your Natural Creativity

? ??25.1?Dream Tropes??




26?Step 4- Dream Dramatic Concept Outline - Germinating the Dramatic Seed


27?Step 5 - Character Dreams - Exploring the World within Your Character


28?Write Your Character's Dream


29?Step 6 - Dream Adjacent Writing Exercises - Giving over to the Magic of Dreaming


30?The Chapters Ahead - Exploring Dreamwright Styles


31?Chapter by Chapter Summary - Dreamwright Styles




2???Structure of the Dreamwork, Myth, Ceremony, and Ritual ?August Strindberg's? Dream Play ?and Orson Welles? Citizen Kane??

1?Orson Welles and the Flashback Dream Structure




3???Ancient Dream Structures: Myths and the Greek Chorus ?Sophocles'? Oedipus the King?, Paula Vogel's? How I Learned to Drive?, Lanford Wilson's? Book of Days?, and Marcel Camus'? Black Orpheus??

1?How I Learned to Drive? - Paul Vogel's Contemporizing the Chorus


2?How I Learned to Drive? - a Circular Structure of Revelation


3?Lanford Wilson's Book of Days -??? the Lyric Chorus


4?Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus? - the Liminality of Carnival




4???African-American Dream Funhouse - Creating Ritual Liminality ?Adrienne Kennedy's? Funny House of a Negro ?and Julie's Dash's? Daughters of the Dust??

1?Julie Dash and the Structure of the Griot's Song




5???Transfiguration of Gender and Identity - Transformations, Mutability, and Androgyny ?Jean Genet's? The Balcony ?and Sally Potter's? Orlando??

1?Jean Genet: Criminal Gender Illusionist


2?Orlando? - Sally Potter - a History of Gender Fluidity




6???The Dreamer's Heart - Thinking Backwards First ?Character Dreams and Storytelling - McDonagh's? The Pillowman ?and Christopher Nolan's:? Memento??

1?Story Structure in McDonagh's The Pillowman???


2?Hairpin: The Structure of Christopher Nolan's Memento???




7???Magic Plot Cards - The Dreamwright as Storyteller ?Tony Kushner's? Angels in America, ?Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Guillermo Arriaga's? 21 Grams??

1?Tony Kushner's Angels in America - A Reluctant Prophet and a Reformed Sinner???


2?Guillermo Arriaga's 21 Grams -??? Daily Dreams and Time Jumps

? ??2.1?The Interweave Process??




8???The Snap of the Heartstring - Symbolism and Romanticism ?Chekhov's? The Cherry ?Orchard, Jose Rivera's? Cloud Tectonics, ?Marguerite Duras'? Hiroshima Mon Amour??

1?Snapping of a String - the Essence of Chekhov's Symbolism


2?Exercises in Chekhov's Symbolist Technique


3?Jose Rivera -? Cloud Tectonics -??? Latinx Realism Time Shift


4?Unending Conversations: The Voice-Over Romance of Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima, Mon Amour???


5?Marguerite Duras -? Hiroshima Mon Amour -??? Love in a Time of Nuclear Holocaust




9???Realms of Theatricality - Surrealism and Waking Dreams ?Thornton Wilder's? Pullman Car Hiawatha ?and David Lynch's? Mulholland Drive??

1?Twisted Noir: The Mobius Detective in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive???


2?Muholland Drive -??? Twisting the Noir - Arouse Your Nocturnal Detective




10???Inside out - a Feminist Expressionism of Dreaming ?Sarah Ruhl's? Eurydice ?and Karen Moncrieff's? The Dead Girl??

1?Karen Moncrieff - The Dead Girl -??? Unpeeling the Onion of Grief




11???Epic Theatre and The Lucid Dream ?Bertolt Brecht's? The Threepenny Opera ?and Lucy Alibar's? Beasts of the Southern Wild??

1?Lucy Alibar - Beasts of the Southern Wild -??? The Lucidity of a Child




12???Postmodernist Worlds of Slippage ?Pirandello's? It Is So! (If You Think So) and ?Eleanor Perry's? The Swimmer??

1?Eleanor Perry - The Swimmer - Multiverse Pools of Desire


2?Entering the Absurd - Final Clarity of the Insane Vision - Collapse of Drama into Performance




13???The Absurdist Nightmare and the Dramatic Wet Dream ?Ionesco's? The Bald Soprano?, Samuel Beckett's? Play?, and Quentin Tarantino's? Pulp Fiction??

1?Samuel Beckett's Play -??? Pushing On/Pushing Through - I Can't Go on, I'll Go On


2?The Maw of Pop Culture: Pulp Fiction? and the Structure of Story Threads

? ??2.1?Quentin Tarantino's Dramaturgical Essence - the Cacophony of Scenic Sequencing??




3?Pulp Fiction (Scenes in Chronological Order)




14???The Breathing of a Play: Music and Ritualized Sacrifice ?Edward Albee's? Tiny Alice ?and Agn?e?s Varda's? Vagabond??

1?Agnes Varda - Oneiric Cinecriture - Writing Your Dreams in Film




15???Comedy Shock: Rhythms of Menace and Joy ?Harold Pinter's? The Birthday Party, ?Irene Fornes'? Conduct of Life?, and? Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend??

1?Harold Pinter - Playwright of Tension and Release - the Comedy of Unease


2?Maria Irene Fornes: The Torturer and the Tortured - Conducting Cruel Comedy


3?Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend: The Horrible, Wonderful, Murderous Success of Corinne and Roland




Conclusion ?The Work of a Dreamwright - Transcending the Possible???

1?The Dream Cache




Index??