Playwriting: A Complete Guide to Creating Theater - Softcover

Frome, Shelly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899504256 ISBN 13: 9780899504254

Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Fifteen chapters explaining every aspect, with excerpts from classic and prominent modern works, quotations from noted playwrights, and anecdotes from the author's personal experiences with such as Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Interviews with A.R. Gurney, Lloyd Richards, Connie Congdon, Alfred Uhry, and others are included. An appendix gives information about submitting playscripts, getting grants, entering contests, doing play festivals, securing an agent and so on.

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Review

excerpts from classic plays and prominent modern works [and] anecdotes from the author's personal experiences""-Theater Crafts

""emphasis throughout is upon the craft of dramatic literary production...style is persuasive""-Speech & Drama.

About the Author

Shelly Frome is a professor of dramatic arts emeritus at the University of Connecticut, a former professional actor, a writer of mysteries, books on theatre and film, and articles on the performing arts that have appeared in periodicals in the U.S. and the U.K. He is also a movie critic and has written a number of articles on aspects of novel writing for various web sites and blogs. A member of Mystery Writers of America, his fiction includes the recently released Hollywood caper Tinseltown Riff, Twilight of the Drifter, The Twinning Murders, Lilac Moon and Sun Dance for Andy Horn. Among his works of non-fiction are the acclaimed The Actors Studio and texts on the art and craft of screenwriting and writing for the stage. He lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0899504256
• ISBN 13: 9780899504254
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191