How to read a play
How to read a play is an introductory guide to the art of translating the printed page of a play or screenplay into dramatic mental images; this book includes a chapter about how to read a screenplay, noting the intrinisic differences between a screenplay and a playscript
Print Book, English, 1999
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Grove Press, New York, 1999
113 pages ; 21 cm
9780802136299, 080213629X
41355801
The reader and the medium
Sound effects
Momentum and suspense
Not by words alone
Costume and identity
Identity and character
Irony and ambiguity
Mental theater
Silence
Meaning and experience
Photogenic action
Play-reading as a pleasure