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Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10-Minute Play

"Perfect Ten" is the perfect nuts-and-bolts primer for writing and producing the hottest trend in American theatre today: the ten-minute play. Look in any small or medium-sized theatre and you're bound to run smack up against it. This new creative form is growing faster than anyone can keep track of, with a whole new generation of artists embracing it. Writing with the same sharp wit and wise, conversational voice of "The Playwright's Survival Guide," Garrison demystifies the process of writing and producing the ten-minute play by breaking it down structurally, dramaturgically, and theatrically. If you're a working playwright, you'll learn what to do and not to do, discover which professional theatres are looking to produce the ten-minute play, and read advice from literary managers and artistic directors on how to write a play that's greeted with a production, not a rejection letter. If you're a theatre manager, director, or artistic director, you'll learn about the rewards as well as the very real problems of producing an evening of ten-minute plays. For the student of playwriting, you'll examine how five very different writers approach the same idea and apply it to your own work, which you'll explore dramaturgically against the ideas in the book.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 144
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780325003122
  • Release date
  • 2001