The Blunt Playwright: An Introduction to Playwriting

by Clem Martini

The Blunt Playwright guides new students of playwriting through the intricacies of playwriting in a direct, informative, and entertaining fashion. It examines dramatic structure, discusses the creative process, explores the nature of character in dramatic work, provides a number of writing exercises that are useful for generating text, and cites local and international playwrights throughout.

Genres: Nonfiction, Writing, Canada

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

Reviews

[Page]

Like the title says this author is blunt about playwriting. The book covers so much ground that I'm not sure there's anything left although it's possible that more detail could be afforded to some sections. That said were I to go into playwriting with the notion of actually wanting to see my play produced I would certainly want to pick up a copy of this book to own. The end includes a number of valuable references there are also exercises to prompt you and build your writing skills and these are good not just for playwrights but for all writers. Bottom line highly recommend this book

[Steele Prefontaine]

quite informative. Martini's book offer a lot of aspects of playwriting that I was already familiar with but handles each aspect with care and good humor. perfect book for anyone wanting to try or even just learn more about the medium. I could see this being a guiding document for myself going forward.

[Hannah De Silva]

I accidentally stole a copy of this book from my English teacher.
Mr. Perry if you see this I’m sorry, you moved schools before I could return it to you; but it is safe and in good condition, I hope I can give it back one day.

[Anna]

YES. GOOD.

[kermit]

read for school was okay

[Hazel]

I really enjoyed how, lol, blunt this was