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Solving Your Script: Tools and Techniques for the Playwright
Solving Your Script: Tools and Techniques for the Playwright
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Author: Jeffrey Sweet Publisher: Heinemann Drama Format: Softcover # of Pages: 240 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0325000530 ISBN-13: 9780325000534
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About the Book:
In wide use in drama programs and professional schools, Solving Your Script is a hardheaded approach to solving technical problems in scripts. In down-to-earth chapters, award-winning playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Sweet introduces tools enabling writers to:
• write exposition using the future tense
• make characters vivid even before they appear
• find the idiosyncrasies in a character that will generate story
• and much more!
Each chapter includes a discussion of a particular technique, followed by an assignment from Jeffrey Sweet's workshop and scenes written by his colleagues and students. There are also detailed discussions of what works in the scenes, what is problematic, and why.
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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