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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Wondrous Strange

Wondrous Strange

Mead, Chris

Paperback

Playwriting

ISBN10: 1760627534
ISBN13: 9781760627539
Publisher: Currency Press
Published: Feb 22 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
WONDROUS STRANGE by dramaturg, director, and long-lime literary manager Chris Mead is a high-wire musing on what makes great plays. For anyone who is into theatre of any kind, read on ... From Aristotle's Poetics to Suzan-Lori Parks' 'bad math' to the neurochemistry of storytelling, WONDROUS STRANGE takes the reader on a satisfyingly meandering journey through seven 'thoughts' on theatrical storytelling. Combining autobiography, practice and theory, Chris Mead has written a wondrous book for anyone who has ever grappled with what it means to tell a story on stage, one that both comprehensively elucidates the key schools of dramaturgical thought while celebrating their disruption and transformation.'ANCHULI FELICIA KING Mead's wide-ranging, deeply researched and erudite book makes it clear that there are no simple formulas to follow if you want to write a great play. It takes talent and great perceptive power, but finally the process is so mysteriously complex as to make it 'wondrous strange'.'DAVID WILLIAMSON Chris Mead'theatre-geek extraordinaire'shines a magnifying glass on this wondrous and strange medium of ours with this deep exploration of theatre at a cellular level throughout the ages. More than a brain dump, this is a carefully considered and finely crafted love poem to theatre that practitioners and theatre lovers from all walks of life can dive into and swim around in.'ANDREA JAMES Chris Mead promises '- vertigo, whiplash, forking paths and some thin ice ahead: but there is also insight and wonder'. He delivers each element superbly. His seven thoughts are provocative, insightful, wondrous, yes, and at times I felt the ice crack beneath me. This is not a manual, a how-to book to write plays - I've been writing plays for a long lime and I learned heaps but most importantly, I was reminded of how marvellous a play can be: full of wonder and as strange as can be.'PATRICIA CORNELIUS

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