The Blunt Playwright
An Introduction to Playwriting
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2006
- Subjects
- Playwriting, Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780369100214
- Publish Date
- Sep 2019
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
Examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites international playwrights throughout.
About the author
Clem Martini is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and nine books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, including Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, winner of the Calgary Book Award, and his most recent anthology of plays, Martini with a Twist. He has served on the boards of numerous writing organizations including the Alberta Playwrights Network, the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright and The Greek Playwright, are used in universities and colleges across the country. He is currently a professor in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.
Excerpt: The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting (by (author) Clem Martini)
“There are no rules. There exists a large body of advice regarding the writing of plays… but in the end, there are no rules—and no policing body to enforce them, even if there were.”
—from the introduction by Clem Martini