Description
Fifty Playwrights on their Craft offers, through interviews, an in-depth survey of the most important contemporary playwrights working in the UK and US today as they probe key questions and considerations around their craft.
About the Author
Caroline Jester is a writer and dramaturg. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Creative and Critical Writing at Birmingham City University, UK, a Master on the MA in Dramatic Writing at Central Saint Martins, UK and has been Literary Manager and Dramaturg at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, UK. Jester's publications include Europa (2013), Dramatic Writing Masterclasses: Key Advice from the Industry Masters (2017) and Playwriting Across the Curriculum (2011). Caridad Svich is a playwright, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press. She received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for The House of the Spirits.She has edited several books on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (2016 & 2015), Out of Silence: Censorship in Theatre & Performance (2014), and Trans-Global Readings (2004).
Reviews
Fifty Playwrights is a substantial collection ... The reward is an invaluable awareness of the dramatic community writing in English today ... This collection is a joy to read, and each reader is sure to connect with at least some of the voices it presents ... For a beginning playwright, this book is a great early-career springboard to launch one toward their future. For an avid reader or watcher of theatre, it is a unique glimpse of the artists behind the art. For someone who spends their life around the arts, it is a new telling of an old story. * Rain Taxi *
A timely contribution to the available literature on the art and craft of playwriting ... All the interviews offer rich and detailed insights into the minds of the writers, pointing to their process but also to the political and ethical foundation of their work ... This is an important contribution to the literature on playwriting and will undoubtedly be of tremendous use to any aspiring or experienced playwright. * Contemporary Theatre Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781474239028
Author Caroline Jester
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 377g