Categorii: Neclasificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2019
Editura: Nick Hern Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 224
ISBN: 9781848427907
Dimensiuni: l: 13.7cm | H: 21.6cm
For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys's remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today's leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.
Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play. Drawing on a huge range of sources, it deconstructs playwriting into its constituent parts, and offers illuminating insights into:
Written by a true master of the craft, this authoritative guide will provide playwrights at every level of experience with a rich array of tools to apply to their own work.
This edition, edited by Maeve McKeown, includes a Foreword by April De Angelis.
'What Stephen Jeffreys doesn't know about playwriting isn't worth knowing'
Stephen Daldry
'Stephen Jeffreys is as important a teacher as he is brilliant a writer... Without him, I wouldn't have been able to write the plays that I have written'
Simon Stephens
'An incredibly useful writing helpmeet. As witty and humane as its author'
Emma Thompson
'What Stephen taught me has shaped my mind and I have shared this with countless writers'
Kwame Kwei-Armah
'Stephen was a true mentor... I still draw upon much of what he taught me today'
Abi Morgan
'Like a bird in the air, Stephen was utterly in his element as a teacher. We sat spellbound'
Phyllida Lloyd