New dramaturgies : strategies and exercises for 21st century playwriting
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New dramaturgies : strategies and exercises for 21st century playwriting
(Focus on dramaturgy / series editor, Magda Romanska)(Routledge focus)
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Description and Table of Contents
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In New Dramaturgies: Strategies and Exercises for 21st Century Playwriting, Mark Bly offers a new playwriting book with nine unique play-generating exercises.
These exercises offer dramaturgical strategies and tools for confronting and overcoming obstacles that all playwrights face. Each of the chapters features lively commentary and participation from Bly's former students. They are now acclaimed writers and producers for media such as House of Cards, Weeds, Friday Night Lights, Warrior, and The Affair, and their plays appear onstage in major venues such as the Roundabout Theatre, Yale Rep, and the Royal National Theatre. They share thoughts about their original response to an exercise and why it continues to have a major impact on their writing and mentoring today. Each chapter concludes with their original, inventive, and provocative scene generated in response to Bly's exercise, providing a vivid real-life example of what the exercises can create.
Suitable for both students of playwriting and screenwriting, as well as professionals in the field, New Dramaturgies gives readers a rare combination of practical provocation and creative discussion.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction 1. The "Sum Forty Tales from the Afterlives" Exercise 2. Bly's "Einstein's Dream" Exercise 3. Bly's "Character's Greatest Fear" Exercise 4. Bly's "Character's Greatest Pleasure" Exercise 5. Bly's "Kafka's Train" Exercise 6. Bly's "Music Memory" Exercise 7. Bly's "Myth" Exercise 8. Bly's "Nashville Film Overlapping Dialogue and Storyline" Exercise 9. Bly's "Sensory Writing" Exercise Index
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