Collaborative Playwriting

Collaborative Playwriting
Author: Paul C Castagno
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000709558

In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented. Based on the EU Collective Plays Project, this collection of plays showcases each voice in dialogic tension and in relation to the other voices of the text, offering an entirely novel approach to new play development that challenges the single (and privileged) authorial voice. Castagno’s case-study approach provides detailed commentary on each of the various experimental methods, exploring the plays’ processes in detail. The book offers an evolutionary path forward in how to develop new work, thus encouraging and promoting the writing of collective, hybrid plays as having profound benefits for all playwrights. The ground breaking approaches to playmaking in Collaborative Playwriting will appeal to playwriting programs, instructors, academics, professional playwrights, theaters and new play development programs; as well as courses in gender LGBTQ studies, script analysis, dramaturgy and dramatic literature across the theater studies curricula.

The Collaborative Turn

The Collaborative Turn
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087909608

"Pulling back the curtain on the collaborative process, Walter Gershon’s stunning new collection highlights the complex, multi-dimensional nature of qualitative research today. The Collaborative Turn: Working Together in Qualitative Research powerfully deepens and richens ongoing discussions around collaborative inquiry so central today. Drawing together a wide range of senior and emergent scholars, as well as a span of traditional and experimental approaches, this cutting-edge text is ideal for both new and seasoned scholars alike." -- Greg Dimitriadis, Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher

The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher
Author: Sandra Clark
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317866681

This is an analysis of sexual themes in the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, both in the context of the Jacobean theatre and in the light of modern readings of sexuality and gender during the English Renaissance. Sandra Clark challenges commonly-held perceptions of Beaumont and Fletcher's work. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses on Renaissance literature, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, tragicomedy, gender and genre in the Renaissance.

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing
Author: Jeffrey Sweet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0300228058

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss the art of playwriting, from inspiration to production, in a volume that marks the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series and the David Charles Horn Foundation Prize for emerging playwrights. Jeffrey Sweet, himself an award-winning dramatist, hosts a virtual roundtable of perspectives on how to tell stories onstage featuring extensive interviews with a gallery of gifted contemporary dramatists. In their own words, Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, David Hare, and many others offer insights into all aspects of the creative writing process as well as their personal views on the business, politics, and fraternity of professional theater. This essential work will give playwrights and playgoers alike a deeper and more profound appreciation of the art form they love.

Practicing the City

Practicing the City
Author: Nina Levine
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-01-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0823267881

In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that trafficked in the contemporary urban scene. But beyond the stage’s representing the everyday activities of the expanding metropolis, its unprecedented urban turn introduced a new dimension into theatrical experience, opening up a reflexive space within which an increasingly diverse population might begin to “practice” the city. In this, the London stage began to operate as a medium as well as a model for urban understanding. Practicing the City traces a range of local engagements, onstage and off, in which the city’s population came to practice new forms of urban sociability and belonging. With this practice, Levine suggests, city residents became more self-conscious about their place within the expanding metropolis and, in the process, began to experiment in new forms of collective association. Reading an array of materials, from Shakespeare and Middleton to plague bills and French-language manuals, Levine explores urban practices that push against the exclusions of civic tradition and look instead to the more fluid relations playing out in the disruptive encounters of urban plurality.

The Flick

The Flick
Author: Annie Baker
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1559364580

An Obie Award-winning playwright's passionate ode to film and the theater that happens in between.

Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing

Rethinking Women's Collaborative Writing
Author: Lorraine Mary York
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802084651

York explores collaborative writing from women in Britain, the United States, Italy and France, illuminating the tensions in the collaborative process that grow out of important cultural, racial, and sexual differences between the authors.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 846
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199566100

Contains forty original essays.

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing
Author: Will Sharpe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2023
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0198819633

Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. In undertaking a rigorous appreciation of his co-authored works, it presents them as distinctive works of art that transform our understanding of Shakespeare the poet, dramatist, and enduring cultural icon.