Poetics of the Creative Process: An Organic Practicum to Playwriting

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Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of playwriting through the insight of the very foundations of drama and theatrethe ritual process. Using the playwright as a ritual quester, it attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea, through the development of that idea, to its expression as a scripted and theatrical expression. To give the concept a wider scope, parallels and/or contrasts are often made with similar creative experiences, especially performative. The first part of the book visually crystallizes the ritual-creative concept in the psychical emanations of the questing playwright; the second part locates the concept in the dramatic structure, a result of the physical engagement, struggle and expression of the playwright. Various established dramatic works, classical and contemporary, are used to illustrate this creative concept.

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The three appendixesexercises, a one-act monologue, and a text analysiswill interest young playwrights in particular, but this is not a set of directions for beginnning dramatists. Rather, it is a meditation on craft.Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. -- G.W. Clift * Choice Reviews *

Author Bio

Femi Euba, playwright, director, and actor, is Professor of Theatre and English at Louisiana State University. Professor Euba received an MFA in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature from Yale, and a doctorate in English from the University of lfe, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.