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The Dramatist's Toolkit: The Craft of the Working Playwright
The Dramatist's Toolkit: The Craft of the Working Playwright
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Author: Jeffrey Sweet Publisher: Heinemann Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 176 Pub. Date: 1993 ISBN-10: 0435086294 ISBN-13: 9780435086299
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About the Book:
In The Dramatist's Toolkit award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Sweet offers an intensive and practical guide to being a working playwright. In wide use in drama programs and professional schools, this informative guide by Jeffrey Sweet discusses such matters as:
• The building blocks of playwriting
• How characters relate to one another
• The differences and similarities between musicals and plays
• Screenwriting vs. playwriting
• and much more!
Jeffrey Sweet offers guidance for the beginning playwright and advice for the seasoned professional.
What people say:
"The passages that writers most admire in their own work are the ones in which they are most likely to have slipped into preaching or not-so-veiled self-congratulation." — Jeffrey Sweet, from The Dramatist's Toolkit
About the Author:
Jeffrey Sweet is most closely associated with Chicago theatre. His plays have been presented off-Broadway in New York, in American regional theatres large and small, and on stages in London, Tokyo, Toronto, Budapest, Mannheim and Johannesburg. He has also written drama, sitcom, miniseries, and TV movies for ABC, NBC, and CBS. His work has won the Writers Guild of America Award and been nominated twice for the Emmy. A popular teacher and author of many newspaper and magazine articles, he teaches at HB Studios in New York, and guest lectures frequently at universities and theatres around the US. He also wrote Something Wonderful Right Away, an oral history of Chicago's Second City company (a book which in turn inspired the creation of two other Chicago theaters) and two texts on playwriting, The Dramatist's Toolkit and Solving Your Script. |
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