Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Part I: The Language Playwright Chapter 1: The Playwright's Two Voices Chapter 2: Dialogic Applications and Practices Part II: The Dramaturgy of New Playwriting: From Building Blocks to Revision Chapter 3: The Poetics of New Playwriting Chapter 4: Defining, Rewriting and Refining the Script Part III: Monologic Structures: From Orthodoxy to Innovation Chapter 5: Show us, don't tell us Chapter 6: Toward Dialogic Monologue in New Playwriting Part IV: Formulating Character Chapter 7: Establishing New Approaches to Character Chapter 8: Len Jenkin's Dramaturgy of Character: Stage Figures to Archetypes Chapter 9: Eric Overmyer: Some Principles of Character Transformation Chapter 10: Mac Wellman: Language-based Character Works Cited Index
Paul C. Castagno is Professor of Theatre at UNC-Wilmington where he served as founding chair of the Department of Theatre. He formerly served as Director and Head of M.A. Programs of the School of Theater at Ohio University, and headed the MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy Programs at University of Alabama. He teaches playwriting, dramatic literature and directs, and has published books and/or articles on playwriting and commedia dell’arte.
"Unique in its genre...goes far beyond [a] useful
study...recommended enthusiastically..." -- Choice
"New Playwriting Strategies is a lively dramaturgical gesture that
not only blows cobwebs off the existing contemporary notions of
what constitutes a stageplay, but also chronicles the seismic shift
in playwriting over the past two decades in the United States. This
language-based approach to playwriting offers a rigorous collection
of writing exercises that will challenge playwrights at a formative
and advanced stage to discover new creative strategies and forms
for theatrical expression." -- Mark Bly, Chair of the Playwriting
Program, Yale School of Drama
"The new school of playwriting needs a new poetics, and Paul
Castagno provides it in New Playwriting Strategies,a text that is
lucid, intelligent, and, above all,practical. He offers an
insightful analysis of the workof today's most inventive
dramatists, creates a criticalvocabulary to illuminate their work,
and provides clearand fun excercises. Truly an indespensable
book--notjust for playwrights, but directors, designers,
andcritics, as well." -- David Rush, author of Police DeafNear Far
and Head of Playwriting, Southern IllinoisUniversity,
Carbondale
"The new school of playwriting needs a new poetics, and Paul
Castagno provides it in New Playwriting Strategies,a text that is
lucid, intelligent, and, above all,practical. He offers an
insightful analysis of the workof today's most inventive
dramatists, creates a criticalvocabulary to illuminate their work,
and provides clearand fun excercises. Truly an indispensable
book--notjust for playwrights, but directors, designers,
andcritics, as well." -- David Rush, author of Police DeafNear Far
and Head of Playwriting, Southern IllinoisUniversity, Carbondale
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