Stage Writing
A Practical Guide
Val Taylor(Author)
The Crowood Press Ltd
Published on 23. September 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-86126-452-7 (ISBN)
Description
This title leads new and developing playwrights through the structures of theatrical storytelling. It combines exercises in textual analysis with eight practical scriptwrighting projects. Based upon photographs and scenarios, these projects lead new playwrights to complete six original scenes. Topics covered include: building relationships with the audience, the actor, the director and the designer, plus understanding and using the physical space of the stage. Finding and developing a dramatic story, creating believable dramatic characters and dialogue and building a strong play structure through the principles of movement, action, conflict and juxtaposition, is covered together with writing effective stage directions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ramsbury
United Kingdom
Illustrations
15 b&w photographs
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
218 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86126-452-7 (9781861264527)
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Val Taylor is a theatre director, writer and script consultant. She has taught actors, directors and scriptwriters for theatre, screen and radio since 1993. She heads the postgraduate programme in Creative Writing: Scriptwriting at the University of East Anglia. Val also teaches screenwriting for Screen East, in conjunction with Anglia Television. Resident - Cawston, Norfolk