Theater Arts

Series Editor: Jordan Miller, University of Rhode Island.Each volume provides: dramatists, production dates of significant plays, and intellectual, cultural and historical events of the period; original, accessible analyses of plays, playwrights, and literary & theatrical movements; convenient reference features -- notes and references, an annotated bibliography, and an index; and illustrations bringing theaters, playwrights and productions to life.

New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre writing, as well as their influence on other dramatic forms. Paul Castagno builds on the innovative plays of Len Jenkin, Mac Wellman, and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to investigate groundbreaking new techniques from a broad range of contemporary dramatists, including Sarah Ruhl, Suzan Lori-Parks and Young Jean Lee. New features in this edition include an in-depth study of the adaptation of classical texts in contemporary playwright and the utilizing new technologies, such as YouTube, Wikipedia and blogs to create alternative dramatic forms. The author's step-by-step approach offers the reader new models for: narrative dialogue character monologue hybrid plays This is a working text for playwrights, presenting a range of illuminating new exercises suitable for everyone from the workshop student to the established writer. New Playwriting Strategies is an essential resource for anyone studying and writing drama today.

The Student Guide to Playwriting provides access to step-by-step lesson plans for writing a theatre play.