1st Edition

Playwriting A Practical Guide

By Noël Greig Copyright 2005
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Playwriting offers a practical guide to the creation of text for live performance. It contains a wealth of exercises for amateur and professional playwrights. Usable in a range of contexts, the book works as: a step-by-step guide to the creation of an individual play a handy resource for a teacher or workshop leader a stimulus for the group-devised play. The result of Noël Greig's... Read more
Acknowledgements  Preface  1. Getting Going and Warming Up  2. Theme  3. Issue  4. Building a Character  5. Finding the Story  6. Location  7. The Individual Voice  8. Draft Two  9. Performance Projects  Appendix

Biography

Noël Greig has been a theatre-practitioner since 1967, working as actor, director and playwright. More than fifty of his plays have been produced and performed both in the UK and overseas, and he teaches in a range of contexts, including schools, colleges and universities, running courses in playwriting, acting and theatre history. He is currently involved in making theatre with and for young people, working with youth groups around the world, and encouraging new writing.

'A testament to the burgeoning of creative writing ... a clarion celebration of dramatic writing ... The next generation of theatre practitioners will emerge having used these techniques as their dramatic primer.' - STP 25

'As good as a masterclass ... you want to write plays? You need this book.' - Writers Forum