Beschreibung:
New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms.
Introduction: Beyond the Tipping Point 1.New Playwriting Strategies: Overview and Terms Part I: Strategies of Language and Character 2. On Multivocality and Speech Genres 3. Polyvocality and the Ascendancy of the Hybrid Play 4. The Theatricality of Character 5. The Transformation of Character 6. Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: From Stage Figures to Archetypes7. Mac Wellman: Language-Based Character8. Crossover Poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks Part II: Strategies of Structure and Form 9. Units and Building Blocks 10. Scenes, Acts, and Revisions 11. Foundations of Contemporary Monologue 12.Dialogic Monologue: Structure and Antistructure Works Consulted