Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball
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Book Summary Author: David Ball Foreword: Michael Langham Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 1983-07-07 ISBN: 0809311100 Number of pages: 104 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press |
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Book Reviews of the Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
Customer Review: Demystifying the Playwriting Process
Summary: 5 Stars
David Ball's book is a must-have for all students and professors of theatre. It demystifies the playwriting process and presents a simple, down-to-earth explanation of why a playscript works the way it does. In a word, it explains how scripts work. I find the deceptively simple explanations help the novices in my Introduction to Theatre classes understand how playscripts are put together and make a fun game of script analysis for these students--a concept that is often hard to communicate to Intro students. At the same time, it make so much sense that it becomes the cornerstone for Beginning Directing, Playwriting, and Script Analysis students. Students whom I teach using Ball's ideas always come through the semester with a lot of self-esteem because having such a solid cornerstone allows their creativity to take off in unexpected directions.