Playwriting and Teaching Tools
Pulling a Playwright Out of a Hat
Playwriting can seem like magic to people who don't do it. But it's not. All you need is a basic system of rules to follow. After all, that's how magicians work, right? You just need to know the secret.
This book includes a very simple, proven system for teaching new playwrights how to write effective and dynamic stage realism, and several tips for moving into other realms of the imagination as well for the more adventurous, and includes a chapter of tips on writing plays based on true but amazing stories of the sort that all our elders love to tell. It also includes lengthy excerpts from original plays by the author to demonstrate how to write plays about absolutely anything.
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Play Craft
Most theater students are not taught to write plays. Many of them are attracted to theater for the social activity that it promises. They perform plays, but they don't write them. So where do scripts come from? Generally, they come from catalogs.
Play Craft was designed to bridge that gap, to provide a social group of students with a playwriting tool designed for collaborative script writing. Use it as it was originally designed–ideally with three to five players–or use it for solitaire play, to write a play on your own. In either form, it requires no planning or forethought whatsoever. In fact, spontaneity is encouraged and rewarded because it creates a play that flows naturally from the characters and the situation that the characters are in.
Available at the May Book Festival!