Writing a Play - The Essential Guide (Paperback)

You want to write a play but you have no idea how to start. This book will help you to enter the exciting world of scriptwriting step by step. What makes a good dramatic story? How do you get inspired? What is the language of theatre? How do you create the most interesting, three-dimensional characters since Shakespeare, and what about creating a plot of masterful ingenuity? Writing a Play: The Essential Guide is full of personal insight and activities for you to try. Playwriting is the most challenging of the writing arts, but this essential guide will help you to practise and develop the skills of exposition, dialogue and putting together a good dramatic structure. Within its pages you'll also find useful tips on how to get your work noticed and performed, as the author recognises it is notoriously difficult for playwrights to get the exposure their work deserves.