Collaborative Playwriting: Polyvocal Approaches from the EU Collective Plays Project

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Paul C Castagno

Collaborative Playwriting

Polyvocal Approaches from the EU Collective Plays Project

Paul C Castagno

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Routledge
20 November 2019

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Writing & editing guides; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; School editions of fiction texts

In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented.

Based on the EU Collective Plays Project, this collection of plays showcases each voice in dialogic tension and in relation to the other voices of the text, offering an entirely novel approach to new play development that challenges the single (and privileged) authorial voice. Castagno’s case-study approach provides detailed commentary on each of the various experimental methods, exploring the plays’ processes in detail. The book offers an evolutionary path forward in how to develop new work, thus encouraging and promoting the writing of collective, hybrid plays as having profound benefits for all playwrights.

The ground breaking approaches to playmaking in Collaborative Playwriting will appeal to playwriting programs, instructors, academics, professional playwrights, theaters and new play development programs; as well as courses in gender LGBTQ studies, script analysis, dramaturgy and dramatic literature across the theater studies curricula.

Edited by: Paul C Castagno
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9780367352424
ISBN 10: 0367352427
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 20 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Castagno, Ph.D., is Professor of Theater at UNC-Wilmington, USA, where he teaches playwriting, theater history and dramatic literature, and directs departmental productions. He is the author of New Playwriting Strategies: Language and Media in the 21st Century (2011) and received the 2018 Oslo International Festival of Acting Pedagogical Award for his influential work on polyvocality in contemporary playwriting.