To Be a Playwright
Theatre Arts (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-87830-188-1 (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
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87830-188-1 (9780878301881)
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Janet Neipris
To Be a Playwright
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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
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Twelve Habits of Highly Successful Playwrights
2. A Room of Your Own
3. Fifty Questions to Ask When Writing a Play
4. Character
5. Dialogue: The Ways Our Characters Speak to Us
6. Location: Passports to Playwriting
7. Endings
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 Do's and Don't's 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
Introduction
1. The Twelve Habits of Highly Successful Playwrights
2. A Room of Your Own
3. Fifty Questions to Ask When Writing a Play
4. Character
5. Dialogue: The Ways Our Characters Speak to Us
6. Location: Passports to Playwriting
7. Endings
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 Do's and Don't's 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