Playwriting

Dan Rebellato is an experienced, internationally performed playwright for theatre and radio. He has taught playwriting for 25 years for various universities, writers' groups, Arvon and elsewhere. He has also written widely and influentially on contemporary British theatre, with a focus on the theory and practice of new writing. He is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Introduction
1. What Does a Playwright Do?
2. How to have Ideas
3. Monologue
4. (How) Can We Learn from Aristotle?
5. Structure
6. Form
7. Plot vs. Story
8. Time and Place
9. Making a Scene
10. Dialogue and Subtext
11. Character
12. Writing Your Play
13. Getting It Staged
Notes
Further Reading