The Art of the Playwright: Creating the Magic of Theatre

actions and visuals actors ADVICE FOR PLAYWRIGHTS American playwrights Aristotle Arthur Miller audience basic beginning brief scene CHAPTER character action character's Chekhov Christopher Durang comes costume create David Rabe dialogue director dramatic action dramatic motifs dramatic principles dramatic writing Edward Albee Electra embody ESTRAGON Eugene Ionesco Eugene O'Neill example exposition feel film Glass Menagerie Hamlet happens Ibsen Ionesco John keep lines living look Macbeth major action major character MICAH modern theatre Molière narrative writing obstacles offstage opening Orestes performance playscript playwright PLAYWRIGHTS Train playwriting plot Poetics principles of dramatic produced Roman theatre Sam Shepard Scarlet Letter Shaw someone Sophocles speech stage directions stakes Stanislavsky story Strindberg SUGGESTED READING taking place talk tell Tennessee Williams theatrical thing Thornton Wilder tragedy tragic vivid onstage visuals VLADIMIR waiting for Godot wants William Shakespeare word Write a brief write plays wrote