Playwriting: A Complete Guide to Creating Theater - Softcover

Frome, Shelly

 
9780899504254: Playwriting: A Complete Guide to Creating Theater

Synopsis

Fifteen chapters explaining every aspect, with excerpts from classic and prominent modern works, quotations from noted playwrights, and anecdotes from the author's personal experiences with such as Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Interviews with A.R. Gurney, Lloyd Richards, Connie Congdon, Alfred Uhry, and others are included. An appendix gives information about submitting playscripts, getting grants, entering contests, doing play festivals, securing an agent and so on.

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About the Author

Shelly Frome is a professor of dramatic arts emeritus at the University of Connecticut, a former professional actor and a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.

Review

"excerpts from classic plays and prominent modern works [and] anecdotes from the author's personal experiences" -- Theater Crafts

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ISBN 10:  0786477474 ISBN 13:  9780786477470
Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2014
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