Playwriting
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Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game
$30.00 Read moreFrom the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling.
ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story t- Author: McKee, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1538726912
- Language: English
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The Normal Heart and the Destiny of Me: Two Plays
$18.00 Add to cartThe Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of a society that allowed the plague to happen, a moving denunciation of the ignorance and fear that he… [more below]
- Author: Kramer, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136923
- Language: English
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Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama
$13.95 Read moreHow dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it.
Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces?
- Series: Exploded Views
- Author: Tannahill, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1552453138
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, by Molière
$19.99 Add to cartIn brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere’s comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Wilbur, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 1965
- ISBN10: 0156605171
- Language: English
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The Playwright’s Guidebook: An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing
$21.00 Read moreA Crucible for Creativity: Unleashing the Playwright Within
This engaging and concise handbook is a beacon for both budding and seasoned playwrights alike, illuminating the path to creating compelling- Author: Spencer, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0571199917
- Language: English
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Happy Days
$17.00 Add to cartIn Happy Days, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and… [more below]
- Author: Beckett, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0802144403
- Language: English
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Writing the Broadway Musical
$15.99 Add to cartBrimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference for book- and songwriters clearly explains the fundamentals of the three crafts of a musical–book, music, and lyrics. Using copious examp… [more below]
- Author: Frankel, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0306809435
- Language: English
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A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas
$13.95 Add to cartDrawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens–first written as craft lectures for the… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1628973838
- Language: English
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The Physicists: A Comedy in Two Acts
$16.00 Add to cartThe Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s great… [more below]
- Author: Durrenmatt, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144276
- Language: English
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Red
$18.62 Add to cart“Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don’t: The exhilaration of the act.” The New Yorker
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening prese- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Logan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1350200441
- Language: English
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Black Comedy: 9 Plays: A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
$29.98 Add to cartThis first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept… [more below]
- Series: Applause Books
- Author: Various Authors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 514
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557832781
- Language: English
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Jumpers
$17.00 Add to cart“Jumpers is simply dazzling. It takes your breath away with its sheer exuberance of literacy, its cascade of words and conspicuous display of intellect. It is also extraordinarily funny. Jumpers is on… [more below]
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160816
- Language: English
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Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen
$38.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction.
Following up his perennially bestselling writers’ guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action- Author: McKee, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1455591955
- Language: English
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Playwriting: Structure, Character, How and What to Write
$20.95 Add to cartFor over two decades, Stephen Jeffreys’ remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of today’s leading playwrights and theater-makers. Now, wi
- Author: Jeffreys, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1559369728
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Earnest
$11.99 Add to cartThe Importance of Being Earnest is perhaps Oscar Wilde’s most popular play – since its first performance in 1895, it has seen countless productions and three film adaptations, and, in the words of the
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1913724050
- Language: English
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Lobby Hero: A Play
$17.00 Add to cartNominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, Lobby Hero tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown o
- Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802138551
- Language: English
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Rock ‘n’ Roll: A New Play
$17.00 Add to cart“One of the great political plays in the English language.”–Sunday Times (UK)
It is 1968, and the world is ablaze with rebellion. Clutching his prized collection of rock albums, Jan, a Cambridge gradu… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160794
- Language: English
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The Invention of Love
$17.00 Add to cart“Vintage Stoppard in its intelligence and wit.” —Variety
It is 1936, and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last–yet his memories are dramatically alive. Confron… [more below]
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160786
- Language: English
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A Doll’s House, Part 2 (TCG Edition)
$16.95 Read more“Smart, funny and utterly engrossing…This unexpectedly rich sequel reminds us that houses tremble and sometimes fall when doors slam, and that there are living people within, who may be wounded or l
- Author: Hnath, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 155936582X
- Language: English
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The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays
$18.00 Add to cart“Stoppard is the master comedian of ideas in the English language.”–Newsweek
Culled from nearly twenty years of the playwright’s career, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is a showcase for Tom … [more below]
- Series: Tom Stoppard
- Author: Stoppard, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0802160808
- Language: English
