Jacqueline Goldfinger

Playwriting with Purpose (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide and Workbook for Playwrights

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights, Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expanded holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and professor.

This book incorporates craft lessons, scenes for study, and concrete guidance in both the art and business of playwriting. The author takes readers through the entire creative process, from creating characters and writing dialogue to revising and producing your play. Each chapter includes incisive craft lessons, provocative writing prompts, examples from plays, tips from working artists, reading recommendations, and more. Thoroughly revised, new features to this edition include:

• Vastly expanded sections on structure, world building, business of playwriting, writing for television and film, and more
• New writing exercises and pro tips from working playwrights in each chapter
• An exploration of art and craft through a new selection of international plays
• Shorter chapters with more subject headings to make it easier to find the exact craft lesson or writing prompt you want when you want it

Playwriting with Purpose gives writers and students the tools to succeed in today's theater industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040363409
• Artikelnr.: 74147536

Autorenporträt

Jacqueline Goldfinger is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg, and librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, including performances at The Kennedy Center, Sydney Opera House, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, École nationale de théâtre du Canada, BBC Radio 3, among others. As an educator, she has taught playwriting and dramaturgy at University of Pennsylvania (undergraduate), University of California, Davis (graduate), and others. She was the Guest Editor for the new play issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. As a dramaturg, she has worked on new plays at La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and others. For more information, visit www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How This Works 1. Writing Warm Ups 2. Now and You 3.
Character 4. Externalization 5. Monologue 6. Conflict & Action 7. Dialogue
8. Stage Directions 9. Exposition 10. Story & Plot 11. Play World 12. Theme
& Idea 13. Point of View 14. Scenes 15. What's in a Scene 16. Scene Length
& Scope 17. Structure & the Dramatic Question 18. Five Popular Structures
19. Other Notes on Structure 20. Play Designations 21. Short Plays 22.
Feedback & Collaboration 23. Revision 24. The Business of Playwriting 25.
Writing for Film & TV 26. Extra Credit

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1. Creating Compelling Characters 2. Writing Electric Dialogue and Silent Moments 3. Environment and Idea 4. The "Well-Made Play" (Short and Long Form) 5. Scene Structure 6. Monologue Structure 7. Thoughts on Aristotle's Poetics 8. Other Structures 9. Writing in 3D for the Living Stage 10. The Limitless Room 11. The Revision Process 12. The Business of Playwriting

Rezensionen

"I wish I had this book when I began my writing journey. It's fresh, funny, thought-provoking, and provides important insights into the industry so that playwrights can get their work on stage immediately."

Antoinette Nwandu, Award-Winning Playwright and Screenwriter, Pass Over (Broadway), She's Gotta Have It (Netflix)

"I love this book! It is a clear-eyed, direct, practical guide for playwrights of all experience levels."

Allison Horsley, Broadway Dramaturg and Translator, Jersey Boys, The Cherry Orchard

"Goldfinger's workbook combines well curated examples with engaging exercises and evocative writing prompts to create an endless array of customizable approaches to playwriting. It speaks to the full range of those interested in creating scripted drama - students and teachers, novices and experts."

David S. Thompson, Agnes Scott College, Georgia

"A refereshing and galvanizing treatise on the craft of playwriting. Great for emerging playwrights!"

Yussef El Guindi, Award-Winning Playwright, Back of the Throat, Language Rooms

"Read this book now. It is a gift to our students and our industry. It's going to revolutionize how we teach playwriting."

Jessica Bashline, Director-Actor, Theatre Professor at University of Miami

"I'm going to put this book on the Required Reading list for acting and directing classes. Actors and directors need to know how plays function in order to do their best work."

Margaret Laurena Kemp, Multi- Disciplinary Performance Artist, Theatre Professor at University of California, Davis

"[Goldfinger's] book - a primer really - is positive, practical, and concise, with twelve economical chapters and a set of appendices. [...] Playwrights reading the book might wish to have pen and paper at hand, or they might want to read the book in front of their computer with their fingers poised above the keyboard. The exercises, such as the character development questionnaires and the use of visual art to stimulate creativity, are indeed a strength here. [...] The approach in Playwriting with Purpose feels just right: to write a full-length play can feel overwhelming at first, but to write a monologue feels just right. Start small. The other day my fifth-grade daughter told me Confucius said, 'The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.' My advice? If the mountain is your play, let Goldfinger help you carry away some small stones."

Amy R. Martin, Southern Review of Books