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Backwards and Forwards
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Backwards and Forwards (edit title/settings)

A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

by David Ball (Author) (edit contributors)

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This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his... read more

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A play is a series of actions.

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Forward

Introduction

I. Shape
1. What Happens That Makes Something Else Happen?
2. And What Happens Next?
3. But Do It Backwards
4. Stasis and Intrusion
5. Obstacle, Conflict
6. Ignorance Is Bliss
7. Things Theatrical
II. Methods
8. Exposition
9. Forwards: Hungry for Next
10. Missing Persons (Character)
11. Image
12. Theme
III. Tricks of the Trade
13. Background Information
14. Trusting the Playwright
15. Families
16. Generalities: Mood, Atmosphere
17. The Unique Factor
18. Changing Eras
19. Climax
20. Beginnings/Endings
21. Rereading
22. What Next?

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  1. David Ball (Author)

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