To Be a Playwright
Published on 17. October 2005
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-87830-187-4 (ISBN)
Description
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87830-187-4 (9780878301874)
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Person
Janet Neipris is a Professor of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Her own plays have been produced nationally and internationally at theatres including the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Arena Stage, the Goodman, the Royal National Theatre, London, and the China Arts Theatre, Beijing. She has lectured around the world on playwriting as craft and art.
Content
Introduction 1. The Twelve Habits of Highly Successful Playwrights 2. A Room of Your Own 3. Fifty Question to Ask When Writing a Play 4. Character 5. Dialogue: The ways our characters speak to us 6. Location: Passports to playwriting 7. Ending 8. Rewriting 9. Journals 10. The Making of a Play: "A Small Delegation" from Beijing to home 11. Adapting from Fact and Fiction 12. The Dos and Don'ts of Playwriting: What i know to be true 13. Critics 14. The Education of a Playwright 15. What They Told Me 16. To be a Playwright Notes Index