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Local play ready to rockDaily Iberian - Jul 28, 2010
“I really don't know anything about writing plays,” Wyche said. “I just know you have to use visuals in a play. Every-thing is conversational. ...
Broadway World - Jul 28, 2010
... Stage Company's Playwright Mentoring Project (PMP). Although he really does try to avoid writing plays, he sometimes can't help himself. by Chris Newbound.
New York Times - Jul 21, 2010
In addition to writing plays, Mr. Neu wrote scripts for two feature films, “Doomed Love” (1983) and “The Big Blue” (1988), both directed by Andrew Horn. ...
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Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
by: Professor Emeritus David Ball Ph.D.
This book was an eye-opener for me. My sister-in-law, who teaches theater and directs many plays, recommended it. It's intended for directors, to show them how to analyze play scripts--backwards and forwards. I would recommend it to playwrights, readers of plays, and theater audiences. And especially to Shakespeare fans. The author does a brilliant analysis of Hamlet (as an example), showing how Shakespeare builds up suspense and keeps the play moving--action, action, action--by means of scenes that are often cut as unnecessary.
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The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers
by: Karl Iglesias
Y'know, this isn't a bad book to have. Get advice from writers actually making a living in the film and TV biz and see if emulating their methods helps you get ahead. And many of them have turned out fine films. But much of the advice given out is, and many of the suggestions made are, so typical and simplistic, it makes you wonder why you haven't made it, already. And the truth is, having someone like Scott Rosenberg tell you all you have to do is write a good script is hysterically funny, considering he has yet to turn one out but got his work produced because of connections.
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The Bedford Introduction to Drama
by: Lee A. Jacobus
good deal on a good book, thanks for helping me graduate on a budget, amazon.com!
basically, all of my textbooks come from amazon.com...i will be using it again in the future
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Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
by: David Mamet
Mamet explicates a compelling theory of drama that links the fine and liberal arts with multifarious forms of American religion and social experience. Though he falters into occasionally harsh prescriptivism, he offers a look at one way American dramatists can and do communicate their world to an audience--and, in many ways, how they communicate the audience's own world as well.
At the heart of Mamet's theory is his claim that all of us make drama out of the ordinary matter of our lives.
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