New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st by Paul C. Castagno

By Paul C. Castagno

New Playwriting Strategies has develop into a canonical textual content within the examine and instructing of playwriting, delivering a clean and dynamic perception into the topic. This completely revised and improved moment version explores and highlights the large unfold of latest innovations that shape modern theatre writing, in addition to their impression on different dramatic forms.


Paul Castagno builds at the leading edge performs of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to enquire groundbreaking new suggestions from a large diversity of latest dramatists, together with Sarah Ruhl, Suzan Lori-Parks and younger Jean Lee. New good points during this variation contain an in-depth learn of the variation of classical texts in modern playwright and the using new applied sciences, equivalent to YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs to create substitute dramatic forms.


The author’s step by step strategy deals the reader new types for:




  • narrative



  • dialogue



  • character



  • monologue



  • hybrid plays


This is a operating textual content for playwrights, offering a variety of illuminating new workouts appropriate for everybody from the workshop pupil to the tested author. New Playwriting Strategies is a necessary source for someone learning and writing drama today.

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