What makes someone a playwright? How do their identities and ideas
interweave and co-exist? What permanent truths can we discern from
examining existing texts? How can we write theatre that
encapsulates the contemporary moment? How do we develop an idea
from the embryonic impulse to a full and robust piece of theatre?
In this fresh, lively and often very funny book, playwright Ryan
Craig makes a case for the vitality of playwriting in our
contemporary world and offers a way into writing those plays. From
the very first moment of the process, as you sit in a coffee shop,
staring at your 'laptop yawning open like some big, gormless mouth,
the screen a flickering blank', to seeing your play staged and
reviewed, the author takes you through the complete journey.
Drawing on his own experience of writing for theatres such as the
National, Hampstead and Tricycle and Menier Chocolate Factory, TV
drama scripts for BBC, ITV and Channel Four, radio plays and
adaptation, as well as commercial theatre, the author explores what
practical tools the dramatist can use to write plays that build
bridges between us. Full of practical advice for the aspiring - and
practising - playwright, this book is also an important
call-to-arms for playwrights everywhere, arguing for its necessity
in the context of an increasingly fractured, distracted,
disconnected world.
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