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 The Elements of Playwriting
Louis E. Catron
Being a playwright means more than just putting pen to paper—it means expressing a personal point of view, bringing a vision to life, developing dimensional characters, structuring a play’s action, creating effective characters, creating effective dialogue, and finding producers, directors, and actors to bring a work to life. Catron, a respected writer, producer, director, and instructor, explores these themes and more, presenting the basic principles necessary for writing a stageworthy play. By emphasizing stageworthiness, he shows how to avoid common pitfalls, such as treating a play as literature or being overinfluenced by cinematic writing. Examples from classical and modern plays are included throughout, as are exercises for sharpening and developing skills and practical guidelines on working with actors and directors, getting produced and published, and finding an agent.
About the Author: One of America’s leading authors of books and articles for playwrights, Professor Catron’s writing reflects his years of teaching playwriting as well as his extensive experience directing modern and classical plays and musicals. He shares this accumulated practical knowledge with his readers as he guides them in a friendly, personal way through the process of creating stageworthy scripts.
$15.50 list, 220 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-227-X 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-227-3 © 1993
Table of Contents
1. Being a Playwright 2. What Makes a Play? 3. The Size of Your Canvas: Monodramas, One-Acts, and Full-Length Plays 4. Where Do You Start?: Turning Your Ideas into Plays 5. Creating Characters: People in Action to Achieve Their Goals 6. Building Plot: Shaping Your Play’s Action 7. Constructing Dialogue: Action Through Words 8. Evaluating and Revising Your Play 9. Script Format: Typing Your Script for Producers and Directors 10. Resources for the Playwright |
