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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Sherry Kramer is a playwright who has won numerous awards for her work and has written more than thirty plays, including David’s RedHaired Death , When Something Wonderful Ends and The Wall of Water. She teaches playwriting at Bennington College, USA, and taught regularly in the MFA programs of The Michener Center for Writers UT Austin, TX, and the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, where she was previously head of the workshop. She was the first national member of New Dramatists. Her website is www.sherrykramer.net. Vorwort In this practical and creative guide Sherry Kramer examines how audiences make meaning in plays, films, and streaming series, in order to demonstrate how writers can make their work mean more to those experiencing it. Zusammenfassung " 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations 1. Works of Art Teach Us How to Read Them First We Must Find a Way to See The World in Front of Us There is an Old Saying in the Theatre: The First 20 Minutes Are FreeA Closer Look at The First 20 Minutes Some Advice About the First 20 Minutes ToneThere is Always a ClockEXERCISE: Spend Some Time With Structured TimeAttention 2. The Perception Shift Insight: The Eureka MomentAttention and InsightThe Power of a Moment’s Newness How Newness Drives InsightA Joke is a Small PlayThe Perception Shift in Three Plays: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Streetcar Named Desire EXERCISE: Experience a Small Perception Shift in the Comfort of Your Own Home Hiding in Plain Sight 3. Theatre Is a Rhyme For Life Certainty, Meaning, and MaybeDramatic DoublenessThe Bone Violin The Bone Violin: A Fugue for Five Actors EXERCISE: Track Doubling in The Bone Violin Doubleness is Our Most Elegant ToolThe Three Surfaces of Doubleness in Three Plays : A Streetcar Named Desire , Betrayal , The Beauty Queen of Leenane SystemsEXERCISE: PleatsSystems and ThemeEXERCISE: Tracking Systems In A Streetcar Named Desire The Ends of Plays Tend to Mirror Their...
