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Playwriting
National Theatre Backstage Guides (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dan Rebellato
- Narrator
- John Telfer
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2025
- Run Time
- 3 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks, examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone their craft.
Critics Review
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It's hard to think of a scholar and theatre maker more knowledgeable about new work and how it’s made or a more perspicacious critic of the contemporary UK theatre scene than Dan Rebellato.
David Eldridge, Dramatist and Screenwriter
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Written in an informal style, it’s an inspiring and entertaining resource, providing tools, suggestions, exercises and tricks.
Writers' Forus
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Rebellato offers up concrete examples to demystify the process of writing … He shares examples of his own playwriting practice, quotidian events that could be turned into drama, and the practices of great playwrights from history. The book is packed full of references to other contemporary and classic plays, which is helpful to see and note down real-world examples of the process in action.
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Details
- Author
- Dan Rebellato
- Narrator
- John Telfer
- Duration
- 3 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 September 2025
- ISBN
- 9781350576599
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Theatre studies, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Plays, playscripts, drama
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Playwriting by Dan Rebellato, read by John TelferThis book is ideal for anyone keen to understand how contemporary plays and playwrights work, particularly those wanting to write for the stage themselves. Drawing heavily on contemporary practice, it considers moments from a range of plays, with a focus on those from the National Theatre's repertoire. The book embraces a range of different dramaturgical structures and styles popular today; plays by a diverse selection of writers; and the current openness of dramatic form. A book of tools, rather than rules, this guide provides suggestions and provocations, exercises and tricks, examples and discussions. An ideal text for playwrights to hone their craft.
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