Solving your script : tools and techniques for the playwright / Jeffrey Sweet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweet, Jeffrey, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Playwriting.

Physical Description:

ix, 226 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2001]

Summary:

You may not be able to study with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Sweet at New York's Actors Studio, but now you can take advantage of the next-best thing -- and you don't have to move to New York. Solving Your Script is a virtual workshop in a book, helping you develop the technical muscles you need to write for the stage, film, and television.

Each chapter includes a discussion of a particular technique, followed by an assignment from Sweet's workshop and scenes written by his colleagues and students -- with detailed discussions of what works, what doesn't, and why.

Contents:

Lesson 1 The Power of the Unsaid Word 7

Sidebar 1 The Present Tense 16

Lesson 2 Negotiation Over Objects 21

Lesson 3 Misuse, Transformation, or Destruction of an Object 33

Lesson 4 Other Negotiations 49

Sidebar 2 Themes 68

Lesson 5 Professional Versus Personal 73

Lesson 6 Responsibility and Appetite 91

Lesson 7 Different Relationships, Different Roles 103

Lesson 8 Different Roles Within a Relationship 116

Sidebar 3 Stage Directions 135

Lesson 9 Of Context and Conversation 139

Lesson 10 The Robin Hood Effect 155

Sidebar 4 Logic 168

Lesson 11 Disruption of a Ritual 172

Lesson 12 Disruption of Routine or Convention 184

Lesson 13 Violation of Settings 198

Lesson 14 Characters Treated By 209.

ISBN:

0325000530

OCLC:

45639126