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Playwriting: A Backstage Guide

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Playwriting: A Backstage Guide
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Prof. Dan Rebellato
SeriesNational Theatre Backstage Guides
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 165,Width 121
Category/GenreTheatre - technical and background skills
Plays, playscripts
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781350135833
ClassificationsDewey:808.2
Audience
Primary & Secondary Education
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
NZ Release Date 20 April 2023
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks, examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone their craft.

Author Biography

Dan Rebellato is an experienced, internationally performed playwright for theatre and radio. He has taught playwriting for 25 years for various universities, writers' groups, Arvon and elsewhere. He has also written widely and influentially on contemporary British theatre, with a focus on the theory and practice of new writing. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Reviews

It's hard to think of a scholar and theatre maker more knowledgeable about new work and how it's made or a more perspicacious critic of the contemporary UK theatre scene than Dan Rebellato. * David Eldridge, Dramatist and Screenwriter *