Industrial playwriting : forms, strategies, and methods for creative production


Autoria(s): Brook, Simon Richard
Data(s)

2009

Resumo

This study, in its exploration of the attached play scripts and their method of development, evaluates the forms, strategies, and methods of an organised model of formalised playwriting. Through the examination, reflection and reaction to a perceived crisis in playwriting in the Australian theatre sector, the notion of Industrial Playwriting is arrived at: a practice whereby plays are designed and constructed, and where the process of writing becomes central to the efficient creation of new work and the improvement of the writer’s skill and knowledge base. Using a practice-led methodology and action research the study examines a system of play construction appropriate to and addressing the challenges of the contemporary Australian theatre sector. Specifically, using the action research methodology known as design-based research a conceptual framework was constructed to form the basis of the notion of Industrial Playwriting. From this two plays were constructed using a case study method and the process recorded and used to create a practical, step-by-step system of Industrial Playwriting. In the creative practice of manufacturing a single authored play, and then a group-devised play, Industrial Playwriting was tested and found to also offer a valid alternative approach to playwriting in the training of new and even emerging playwrights. Finally, it offered insight into how Industrial Playwriting could be used to greatly facilitate theatre companies’ ongoing need to have access to new writers and new Australian works, and how it might form the basis of a cost effective writer development model. This study of the methods of formalised writing as a means to confront some of the challenges of the Australian theatre sector, the practice of playwriting and the history associated with it, makes an original and important contribution to contemporary playwriting practice.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30137/

Publicador

Queensland University of Technology

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30137/1/Simon_Brook_Thesis.pdf

Brook, Simon Richard (2009) Industrial playwriting : forms, strategies, and methods for creative production. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

Fonte

Creative Industries Faculty

Palavras-Chave #playwriting, industrial playwriting, writer development models, Australian theatre history, new play production
Tipo

Thesis