📱 eBook en inglés PLAYWRITING

For over two decades, Stephen Jeffreyss remarkable series of workshops attracted writers from all over the world and shaped the ideas of many of todays leading playwrights and theatre-makers. Now, with this inspiring, highly practical book, you too can learn from these acclaimed Masterclasses.

Playwriting reveals the various invisible frameworks and mechanisms that are at the heart of each and every successful play. Drawing on a huge range of sources, it deconstructs playwriting into its constituent parts, and offers illuminating insights into:

Structure – an in-depth exploration of the fundamental elements of drama, enabling you to choose instinctively the most effective structure for your play Character – advice on how to generate and write credible characters by exploring their three essential dimensions: story, breadth and depth How to Write – techniques for writing great dialogue, dynamic scenes and compelling subtext, including how to improve your writing by approaching it from unfamiliar directions What to Write – how to adopt different approaches to finding your material, how to explore the fundamental Nine Stories, and how to evaluate the potential of your ideas

Written by a true master of the craft, this authoritative guide will provide playwrights at every level of experience with a rich array of tools to apply to their own work.

This edition, edited by Maeve McKeown, includes a Foreword by April De Angelis.

What Stephen Jeffreys doesnt know about playwriting isnt worth knowing
Stephen Daldry

Stephen Jeffreys is as important a teacher as he is brilliant a writer… Without him, I wouldnt have been able to write the plays that I have written
Simon Stephens

An incredibly useful writing helpmeet. As witty and humane as its author
Emma Thompson

What Stephen taught me has shaped my mind and I have shared this with countless writers
Kwame Kwei-Armah

Stephen was a true mentor… I still draw upon much of what he taught me today
Abi Morgan

Like a bird in the air, Stephen was utterly in his element as a teacher. We sat spellbound
Phyllida Lloyd

I had the great pleasure of working with Stephen on his play The Libertine. Would that all playwrights had his openness, his talent, his hard-headedness, his experience, his enthusiasm, his audacity, his complexity, and perhaps best of all his talent and interest in eliciting the best in others
John Malkovich

Stephens wit was legendary. "Wit": from the proto-Indo-European word "weid" meaning "to see"/"to know". Stephen "saw" clearly and "knew" profoundly; which is why we sought out the clarity of his words and learned deeply from his laughter
Simon McBurney

Stephen was more than just a great bloke whose easy laugh set a room alight; he was a genuine geek, an obsessive about the craft of writing… As I read, I was reminded again of his deep connection to plays and how they work. There are gems in here, there is guidance, there is the spirit of Stephen Jeffreys
April De Angelis