Teach Yourself Writing a Play (Teach Yourself: General Reference)

Release your inner Shakespeare

Writing for the theater involves more than good dialog. Teach Yourself Writing a Play gives you all the information you need to craft a play for community theater, from plot, structure, and dialog to the principles of staging and stage directions.

Lesley Bown is a scriptwriter, journalist, and published novelist. Ann Gawthorpe is a journalist and local radio announcer. They have been working and writing together for more than ten years, producing more than 13 plays and sketches in this time, all of which have been performed by amateur theatre groups or on broadcast productions.