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Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience

Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience

Kramer, Sherry

Paperback

Series: Introductions to Theatre

Writing InstructionPlaywritingScreenwriting

ISBN10: 1350338265
ISBN13: 9781350338265
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: Jul 13 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Reading and digesting the lessons in this book can be of greater value to an aspiring dramatist than years in an MFA program. Whether you are writing for the stage, screen or audio, this book is an invaluable teacher and guide to have by your side throughout the development and revision process.
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
This book does what no other playwriting book in my experience has done, it offers a new way of seeing and conceiving how theatre makes meaning and carries emotional impact in performance.
Suzan Zeder, Professor Emerita and former Head Of Playwriting at University of Texas at Austin, USA

Combining a step-by-step analysis of the technique of writing for stage and screen with how the mystery, poetry, and emotional momentum is achieved for the audience, Sherry Kramer offers an empowering, original guide for emerging and established writers.

In this structured look at the way audience members progress through a work in real time, Sherry Kramer uses plain-spoken vocabulary to help you discover how to make work that will mean more to your audiences. By using examples drawn from plays, film, and streaming series, ranging from A Streetcar Named Desire to Fleabag to Pirates of the Caribbean, this study makes its concepts accessible to a wide range of artists who work in timebound art. The book also features multiple exercises, developed with MFA writers in The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, where Kramer taught for the past 25 years, which provide entrance points to help you consider and create your work.

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