Backwards & Forwards
A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
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Narrated by:
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Kevin Pierce
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Written by:
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David Ball
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This guide to play reading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stage worthy. The audiobook is full of tools for students and practitioners to use as they investigate plot, character, theme, exposition, imagery, motivation/obstacle/conflict, theatricality, and the other crucial parts of the superstructure of a play. He includes guides for discovering what the playwright considers the play's most important elements, thus permitting interpretation based on the foundation of the play rather than its details.
Using Hamlet as illustration, Ball assures a familiar base for illustrating script-reading techniques as well as examples of the kinds of misinterpretation listeners can fall prey to by ignoring the craft of the playwright. Of immense utility to those who want to put plays on the stage (actors, directors, designers, production specialists) Backwards and Forwards is also a fine playwriting manual because the structures it describes are the primary tools of the playwright.
©1983 The Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University (P)2013 Redwood AudiobooksWhat the critics say
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- Horia
- 2020-04-06
Backwards and Forwards is Illuminating
This book is instructive at the most elementary and at the most sophisticated level. How to read a script, how to analyse a script and thus appreciate the work the playwright has provided for our edification, reflection and enjoyment
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