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The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting
The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting
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Author: Clem Martini Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 168 Pub. Date: 2020 Edition: 2nd ISBN-10: 0369100190 ISBN-13: 9780369100191
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About
the Book:
A highly readable book, The Blunt Playwright is currently
used in colleges and universities across the country.
The Blunt Playwright is how-to book and guide to drama by
Clem Martini that takes experienced and beginning playwrights
alike through the intricacies of playwriting in a direct,
informative, and entertaining fashion. It examines dramatic
structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of
character in dramatic work, provides classic and contemporary scenes
to study; outlines clever exercises to strengthen writing skills; and
so much more. Highly regarded and used in schools everywhere, this
revised and updated edition, featuring more scenes and new writing exercises,
cements its place as one of the best resources for playwrights.
From organizing the structure of a script to developing
characters' voices, from employing visual effects on stage to writing
comedy, or from self-promotion to getting produced and published, The Blunt Playwright has something for everyone, no matter the stage of your
career.
What people say:
"The Blunt Playwright
is a great resource! I have kept a copy on my desk for the last ten
years where it can easily be found when I need it... which is often."
— Emily Dallas, author of Brave Girl
"I use The Blunt
Playwright for all of my playwriting classes and for
myself because it's a system of writing that works, is easily
understood, and clearly makes sense about process and structure."
— Aaron Bushkowsky, Creative Writing Instructor at Kwantlen
Polytechnic University and award-winning author of After Jerusalem
and My Chernobyl
"The Blunt Playwright
is a great resource for both emerging and established playwrights. I
have kept a copy on my desk for the last ten years where it can
easily be found when I need it ... which is often." — Meg
Braem, Co-director of the Alberta Theatre Projects Playwrights
Unit and award-winning author of Blood: A Scientific Romance and The
Josephine Knot
"Clem Martini is
blunt, all right – and passionate, challenging, deadly serious, and
wryly witty. He covers all the techniques that a playwright might
need at any stage while ardently championing this much misunderstood
art form, and from a welcome Canadian perspective." — John
Lazarus, Associate Professor at Queen's University and
award-winning playwright of Babel Rap and The Grandkid
About the Author:
Clem Martini is an award-winning Canadian playwright,
screenwriter and novelist. He has over thirty plays, and ten books of
fiction and nonfiction to his credit, including A Three Martini
Lunch, which was a nominee for the Governor General's Literary
Award in Drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize). His texts
on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright, The Greek Playwright,
and The Ancient Comedians are employed in universities and
colleges across the country. In addition to writing, he is the Chair
of Drama in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the
University of Calgary.
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