The Playwright's Workbook

by Jean-ClaudeVanItallie (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $17.62

  Subjects covered in this workbook for playwrights include: conflict and character: the dominant image - Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller; dialogue and the spoken word: overhead voices - Ibsen and Shakespeare; creating the solo performance piece: listening for stories; dialogues and monologues: the power of the what ; the point of absurdity: creating without possessing - Pinter and Beckett; and the alienation effect: people using people - Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud.