Writing the Ten-minute Play
Title | Writing the Ten-minute Play PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Alterman |
Publisher | Limelight |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781557838483 |
(Limelight). This book is written for the beginning or seasoned playwright, as well as for actors (or anyone) wishing to attempt their first ten-minute play. Every aspect of writing a ten-minute play is covered, from perking with an idea, to starting the play, to developing it, to effective rewriting, to completing it, even to how to get the most out of readings of your play once you've finished it. Writing the 10-Minute Play also reveals the best ways to market your play and includes an extensive listing of ten-minute play contests. The guide contains many in-depth interviews with international playwrights who have had substantial success with their ten-minute plays, as well as publishers of ten-minute plays and producers of ten-minute play festivals. Included as well are several award-winning ten-minute plays, followed by a discussion by the respective playwrights on how they went about creating their play, from start to finish. The final chapter offers tips and suggestions from artistic directors of ten-minute play festivals and from well-known playwrights whose ten-minute plays have received awards and publishing deals.
A More Perfect Ten
Title | A More Perfect Ten PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Garrison |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2011-12-14 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1585104574 |
A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years. Replete with advice and tips on creating the successful 10-minute play, and cautions for avoiding the pitfalls, this new edition also includes addresses for the biggest and most important 10-minute festival opportunities, new sample 10-minute plays and questions for thought and discussion, and sample layout templates for laying out the play for submission. The savvy playwright at any level of skill can use this little book to great advantage. Plus Gary Garrison is warm, funny, irreverent, and essential.
A Younger Ten
Title | A Younger Ten PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Garrison |
Publisher | Focus |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2020-03-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781585109494 |
In A Younger Ten: Writing the Ten-Minute Play, Gary Garrison distills the playwriting guidance pioneered in his widely consulted Perfect Ten (2001) and A More Perfect Ten (2008), here recast for the needs of aspiring ten-minute playwrights at the high school level. Not satisfied with merely telling how such a play is crafted, Garrison includes a new all-star lineup of eight complete ten-minute plays by a variety of playwrights, emerging as well as established, that can serve as models for writers just starting out in the genre.
Perfect 10
Title | Perfect 10 PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Garrison |
Publisher | Drama |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Writing with a sharp wit and wise, conversational voice, Gary Garrison demystifies the process of writing and producing the ten-minute play.
Writing the 10-Minute Play
Title | Writing the 10-Minute Play PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Alterman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0879108800 |
Paperback Original
Writing the 10-Minute Play
Title | Writing the 10-Minute Play PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Alterman |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0879108797 |
(Limelight). This book is written for the beginning or seasoned playwright, as well as for actors (or anyone) wishing to attempt their first ten-minute play. Every aspect of writing a ten-minute play is covered, from perking with an idea, to starting the play, to developing it, to effective rewriting, to completing it, even to how to get the most out of readings of your play once you've finished it. Writing the 10-Minute Play also reveals the best ways to market your play and includes an extensive listing of ten-minute play contests. The guide contains many in-depth interviews with international playwrights who have had substantial success with their ten-minute plays, as well as publishers of ten-minute plays and producers of ten-minute play festivals. Included as well are several award-winning ten-minute plays, followed by a discussion by the respective playwrights on how they went about creating their play, from start to finish. The final chapter offers tips and suggestions from artistic directors of ten-minute play festivals and from well-known playwrights whose ten-minute plays have received awards and publishing deals.
Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays
Title | Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Lane |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1997-03-25 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0679772820 |
A ten-minute play is a streak of theatrical lightning. It doesn't last long, but its power can stand your hair on end. This splendid anthology contains enough wattage to light up a small city. For in its pages, thirty-two of our finest playwrights hone their skills on a form that has been called the haiku of the American stage. The plays that Nina Shengold and Eric Lane have collected in this volume range from monologues to an eight-character farce. Eminently producible, ideally suited for the classroom and audition, Take Ten is a marvelous resource for teachers and students of drama, as well as a stimulating read for lovers of the theatre. Contributors include: John Augustine, Cathy Celesia, Laura Cunningham, Joe Pintauro, Mary Sue Price, Megan Terry, Jose Rivera, Romulus Linney, David Mamet, Jane Martin, David Ives, and many others.