Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen

Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the nature of dramatic scriptwriting and quickly guide them to a place where they can write, first a short play, and then a short screenplay.

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Richard Stockwell lectures in theatre and screenwriting at Newcastle University, UK. He is an award-winning playwright, and has been writing drama for over 30years, with plays performed in over a dozen countries. He has also written for television, including a period writing for Eastenders for the BBC.

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Scriptwriting for Theatre and Screen: A Practical Guide is an introduction designed to help readers understand the nature of dramatic scriptwriting and quickly guide them to a place where they can write, first a short play, and then a short screenplay.

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Introduction - How to Use This Book

Part 1: Theatre Writing

Chapter 1. Invitations

Chapter 2. Ideas

Chapter 3. Character

Chapter 4. Structure

Chapter 5. Location - Setting

Chapter 6. Empathy

Chapter 7. Status

Chapter 8. Practical Considerations - Acts - Scenes - Format

Chapter 9. Planning and Writing Scenes

Chapter 10. Modes of Address

Chapter 11. Actual Writing

Chapter 12. Similarities and Differences Between Stage and Screen

Part 2: Screenwriting

Chapter 13. Introducing Screenwriting and Launching a New Idea

Chapter 14. Structure Revisited

Chapter 15. Particularities of Short Films

Chapter 16. Format

Chapter 17. Genre

Chapter 18. Character Revisited

Chapter 19. Visual Writing

Chapter 20. Moment-to-Moment Writing

Chapter 21. Rewriting... Again

Chapter 22. Writing for TV

Appendix 1: Critical Commentaries - Evaluations

Appendix 2: Some More Writing Exercises