{"product_id":"9781848420007","title":"The Secret Life of Plays","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Steve Waters\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eTheatre studies\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 June 2010 by NICK HERN BOOKS in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 224 pages\u003cbr\u003e216 x 140 x 18mm | 296g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner vitality as a living organism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost uniquely amongst accounts of playwriting, Waters' book looks at the ways in which good plays move their audiences, generating powerful emotional responses that often defy conventional analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Life of Plays is for playwrights at any stage of their career, and will inspire and inform drama students as well as working actors and directors. Most of all it is for anyone who has ever laughed or cried in the theatre – and wants to know why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Theatre is a live medium, about bodies, sweat and feeling, even if it is informed by ideas and reason. How a thing composed of words manages to carry within it the currents of energy that generate that impression of life is what I want to explore…' Steve Waters 'Steve Waters' book is like his plays: clear, elegant and stimulating throughout' David Edgar\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steve Waters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56153962742085,"sku":"9781848420007","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781848420007.jpg?v=1762273278","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781848420007","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}