Writing your first play / Roger A. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Roger A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Playwriting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Focal Press, an imprint of Elsevier, c1998.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Writing Your First Play provides the beginning playwright with the tools and motivation to tell a story through dramatic form. Based in a series of exercises which gradually grow more complex, the books helps the reader to understand the basic elements of drama, conflict, and action. The exercises help the reader to become increasingly sophisticated in the use of dramatic formats, turning simple ideas into a viable play.Topics include: the role of action in drama;developing action and conflict to reveal character;wri

Contents:

Front Cover; Writing Your First Play; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword Phoef Sutton; Preface; Introduction; 1. Action; Dramatic Action Provokes Questions; Dramatic Action Employs Verbs; Exercise 1.1; EvaIuation; Example: A Man in a Bus Terminal; EvaIuation; Where Ideas Come From; 2.Direct Conflict; Obstacles and Conflict; Outcomes; Stage Terminology; Exercise 2.1; Example: Who's Selling Out Now?; Example: Absolutely Nothing; Evaluation; 3.Character; Character vs. Action; Example: A Woman At Christmas; Exercise 3.1; Example: Big Brother; ExampIe: Conversation; Evaluation; 4.Dialogue

Exposition and ""Chunking""Clichés; Exercise 4.1; Adverb Disease; Example: Good Idea, If It Works; EvaIuation; 5.Three-Character Conflict; Three in a Room; Dramatic Irony and Love Triangles; Exercise 5.1; Example: Break; EvaIuation; Example: Nibbles; Evaluation; 6.Writing From Life; Emotional Connections and Hazards; Exercise 6.1; Example: Cliché; EvaIuation; Example: The Donut Shop; EvaIuation; 7.Writing From a Source; Dangers of Fact; Exercise 7.1; ExampIe: Abracapocus; EvaIuation; ExampIe: Unattainable; EvaIuation; 8.Expanding Your Skills; Spontaneous Composition; Exercise 8.1

Example: Get a LifeProblem Solving: People, Places, and Props; Exercise 8.2; Location, Location, Location!; Exercise 8.3; Words, Words, Words; Exercise 8.4; Questions; Exercise 8.5; Live Theater; Exercise 8.6; AnimaIs; Exercise 8.7; 9.Writing Your Play; Why Now?; Style; Exercise 9.1; Example: Cable Man; Evaluation; 10.Marketing Your Play; Format; Productions, Agents, and Contracts; Contests; Retreats, Residencies, Seminars, and the Web; Play-Leasing Companies and Publishers; Writing Your Second Play; Appendix: Classroom Procedures; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index.

ISBN:

9786612617690

9781136082146

113608214X

9781282617698

1282617699

9780080521411

008052141X

OCLC:

700690204