Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004535954
ISBN-10: 9004535950
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 157 x 239 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Brill
ISBN-10: 9004535950
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 157 x 239 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Brill
Notă biografică
David Crespy founded the University of Missouri’s Writing for Performance program which received the 2017 Gold Medallion from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Twice a Fulbright recipient, he wrote Off-Off-Broadway Explosion and Richard Barr: The Playwrights’ Producer both with a foreword by Edward Albee. He has taught workshops in dreamwork for dramatic writing across the US as well as in Spain and Greece.
Cuprins
Introduction Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing
1 An Organic Approach to Magic and Theatricality
2 How to Use This Book
1The Dreamwright Workshop Relaxation, The Trance State, and Daydreaming
1 Building your Dream Cache: Keeping a Dream Journal
2 A Dream Example
3 A Dream, 8/27/22, Madrid, Spain, Titled: The Bearded Man
4 Step 1 – The Warm-Up – Getting into the Flow
5 Basic Writer’s Physical Warm-Up
6 Shoulder Warm-Up
7 Neck Warm-Up
8 Back Warm-Up
9 Breath Work
10 Relaxation Exercise
11 Step 2 – Devising Your Dream Cache – Gathering the Stuff of Your Imagination
12 Initial Dream Prompts
13 Dramatic Element Prompts
14 Desires
15 Problems/Obstacles
16 Feelings
17 Questions
18 People
19 Events
20 Places
21 Animals
22 Plants
23 Objects
24 The Next Step – Creating with Dream Elements
25 Step 3– Writing a Dream – Freeing Your Natural Creativity
25.1Dream Tropes
26 Step 4– Dream Dramatic Concept Outline – Germinating the Dramatic Seed
27 Step 5 – Character Dreams – Exploring the World within Your Character
28 Write Your Character’s Dream
29 Step 6 – Dream Adjacent Writing Exercises – Giving over to the Magic of Dreaming
30 The Chapters Ahead – Exploring Dreamwright Styles
31 Chapter by Chapter Summary – Dreamwright Styles
2Structure of the Dreamwork, Myth, Ceremony, and Ritual August Strindberg’s Dream Play and Orson Welles Citizen Kane
1 Orson Welles and the Flashback Dream Structure
3Ancient Dream Structures: Myths and the Greek Chorus Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days, and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus
1How I Learned to Drive – Paul Vogel’s Contemporizing the Chorus
2How I Learned to Drive – a Circular Structure of Revelation
3 Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days – the Lyric Chorus
4 Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus – the Liminality of Carnival
4African-American Dream Funhouse – Creating Ritual Liminality Adrienne Kennedy’s Funny House of a Negro and Julie’s Dash’s Daughters of the Dust
1 Julie Dash and the Structure of the Griot’s Song
5Transfiguration of Gender and Identity – Transformations, Mutability, and Androgyny Jean Genet’s The Balcony and Sally Potter’s Orlando
1 Jean Genet: Criminal Gender Illusionist
2Orlando – Sally Potter – a History of Gender Fluidity
6The Dreamer’s Heart – Thinking Backwards First Character Dreams and Storytelling – McDonagh’s The Pillowman and Christopher Nolan’s: Memento
1 Story Structure in McDonagh’s The Pillowman
2 Hairpin: The Structure of Christopher Nolan’s Memento
7Magic Plot Cards – The Dreamwright as Storyteller Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Guillermo Arriaga’s 21 Grams
1 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America – A Reluctant Prophet and a Reformed Sinner
2 Guillermo Arriaga’s 21 Grams – Daily Dreams and Time Jumps
2.1The Interweave Process
8The Snap of the Heartstring – Symbolism and Romanticism Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Jose Rivera’s Cloud Tectonics, Marguerite Duras’ Hiroshima Mon Amour
1 Snapping of a String – the Essence of Chekhov’s Symbolism
2 Exercises in Chekhov’s Symbolist Technique
3 José Rivera – Cloud Tectonics – Latinx Realism Time Shift
4 Unending Conversations: The Voice-Over Romance of Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour
5 Marguerite Duras – Hiroshima Mon Amour – Love in a Time of Nuclear Holocaust
9Realms of Theatricality – Surrealism and Waking Dreams Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
1 Twisted Noir: The Mobius Detective in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
2Muholland Drive – Twisting the Noir – Arouse Your Nocturnal Detective
10Inside out – a Feminist Expressionism of Dreaming Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Karen Moncrieff’s The Dead Girl
1 Karen Moncrieff – The Dead Girl – Unpeeling the Onion of Grief
11Epic Theatre and The Lucid Dream Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and Lucy Alibar’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
1 Lucy Alibar – Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Lucidity of a Child
12Postmodernist Worlds of Slippage Pirandello’s It Is So! (If You Think So) and Eleanor Perry’s The Swimmer
1 Eleanor Perry – The Swimmer – Multiverse Pools of Desire
2 Entering the Absurd – Final Clarity of the Insane Vision – Collapse of Drama into Performance
13The Absurdist Nightmare and the Dramatic Wet Dream Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Samuel Beckett’s Play, and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
1 Samuel Beckett’s Play – Pushing On/Pushing Through – I Can’t Go on, I’ll Go On
2 The Maw of Pop Culture: Pulp Fiction and the Structure of Story Threads
2.1Quentin Tarantino’s Dramaturgical Essence – the Cacophony of Scenic Sequencing
3 Pulp Fiction (Scenes in Chronological Order)
14The Breathing of a Play: Music and Ritualized Sacrifice Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice and Agnès Varda’s Vagabond
1 Agnes Varda – Oneiric Cinécriture – Writing Your Dreams in Film
15Comedy Shock: Rhythms of Menace and Joy Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Irene Fornes’ Conduct of Life, and Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend
1 Harold Pinter – Playwright of Tension and Release – the Comedy of Unease
2 María Irene Fornés: The Torturer and the Tortured – Conducting Cruel Comedy
3 Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend: The Horrible, Wonderful, Murderous Success of Corinne and Roland
Conclusion The Work of a Dreamwright – Transcending the Possible
1 The Dream Cache
Index
1 An Organic Approach to Magic and Theatricality
2 How to Use This Book
1The Dreamwright Workshop Relaxation, The Trance State, and Daydreaming
1 Building your Dream Cache: Keeping a Dream Journal
2 A Dream Example
3 A Dream, 8/27/22, Madrid, Spain, Titled: The Bearded Man
4 Step 1 – The Warm-Up – Getting into the Flow
5 Basic Writer’s Physical Warm-Up
6 Shoulder Warm-Up
7 Neck Warm-Up
8 Back Warm-Up
9 Breath Work
10 Relaxation Exercise
11 Step 2 – Devising Your Dream Cache – Gathering the Stuff of Your Imagination
12 Initial Dream Prompts
13 Dramatic Element Prompts
14 Desires
15 Problems/Obstacles
16 Feelings
17 Questions
18 People
19 Events
20 Places
21 Animals
22 Plants
23 Objects
24 The Next Step – Creating with Dream Elements
25 Step 3– Writing a Dream – Freeing Your Natural Creativity
25.1Dream Tropes
26 Step 4– Dream Dramatic Concept Outline – Germinating the Dramatic Seed
27 Step 5 – Character Dreams – Exploring the World within Your Character
28 Write Your Character’s Dream
29 Step 6 – Dream Adjacent Writing Exercises – Giving over to the Magic of Dreaming
30 The Chapters Ahead – Exploring Dreamwright Styles
31 Chapter by Chapter Summary – Dreamwright Styles
2Structure of the Dreamwork, Myth, Ceremony, and Ritual August Strindberg’s Dream Play and Orson Welles Citizen Kane
1 Orson Welles and the Flashback Dream Structure
3Ancient Dream Structures: Myths and the Greek Chorus Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days, and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus
1How I Learned to Drive – Paul Vogel’s Contemporizing the Chorus
2How I Learned to Drive – a Circular Structure of Revelation
3 Lanford Wilson’s Book of Days – the Lyric Chorus
4 Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus – the Liminality of Carnival
4African-American Dream Funhouse – Creating Ritual Liminality Adrienne Kennedy’s Funny House of a Negro and Julie’s Dash’s Daughters of the Dust
1 Julie Dash and the Structure of the Griot’s Song
5Transfiguration of Gender and Identity – Transformations, Mutability, and Androgyny Jean Genet’s The Balcony and Sally Potter’s Orlando
1 Jean Genet: Criminal Gender Illusionist
2Orlando – Sally Potter – a History of Gender Fluidity
6The Dreamer’s Heart – Thinking Backwards First Character Dreams and Storytelling – McDonagh’s The Pillowman and Christopher Nolan’s: Memento
1 Story Structure in McDonagh’s The Pillowman
2 Hairpin: The Structure of Christopher Nolan’s Memento
7Magic Plot Cards – The Dreamwright as Storyteller Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Guillermo Arriaga’s 21 Grams
1 Tony Kushner’s Angels in America – A Reluctant Prophet and a Reformed Sinner
2 Guillermo Arriaga’s 21 Grams – Daily Dreams and Time Jumps
2.1The Interweave Process
8The Snap of the Heartstring – Symbolism and Romanticism Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, Jose Rivera’s Cloud Tectonics, Marguerite Duras’ Hiroshima Mon Amour
1 Snapping of a String – the Essence of Chekhov’s Symbolism
2 Exercises in Chekhov’s Symbolist Technique
3 José Rivera – Cloud Tectonics – Latinx Realism Time Shift
4 Unending Conversations: The Voice-Over Romance of Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima, Mon Amour
5 Marguerite Duras – Hiroshima Mon Amour – Love in a Time of Nuclear Holocaust
9Realms of Theatricality – Surrealism and Waking Dreams Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
1 Twisted Noir: The Mobius Detective in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive
2Muholland Drive – Twisting the Noir – Arouse Your Nocturnal Detective
10Inside out – a Feminist Expressionism of Dreaming Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and Karen Moncrieff’s The Dead Girl
1 Karen Moncrieff – The Dead Girl – Unpeeling the Onion of Grief
11Epic Theatre and The Lucid Dream Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera and Lucy Alibar’s Beasts of the Southern Wild
1 Lucy Alibar – Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Lucidity of a Child
12Postmodernist Worlds of Slippage Pirandello’s It Is So! (If You Think So) and Eleanor Perry’s The Swimmer
1 Eleanor Perry – The Swimmer – Multiverse Pools of Desire
2 Entering the Absurd – Final Clarity of the Insane Vision – Collapse of Drama into Performance
13The Absurdist Nightmare and the Dramatic Wet Dream Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Samuel Beckett’s Play, and Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
1 Samuel Beckett’s Play – Pushing On/Pushing Through – I Can’t Go on, I’ll Go On
2 The Maw of Pop Culture: Pulp Fiction and the Structure of Story Threads
2.1Quentin Tarantino’s Dramaturgical Essence – the Cacophony of Scenic Sequencing
3 Pulp Fiction (Scenes in Chronological Order)
14The Breathing of a Play: Music and Ritualized Sacrifice Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice and Agnès Varda’s Vagabond
1 Agnes Varda – Oneiric Cinécriture – Writing Your Dreams in Film
15Comedy Shock: Rhythms of Menace and Joy Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Irene Fornes’ Conduct of Life, and Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend
1 Harold Pinter – Playwright of Tension and Release – the Comedy of Unease
2 María Irene Fornés: The Torturer and the Tortured – Conducting Cruel Comedy
3 Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend: The Horrible, Wonderful, Murderous Success of Corinne and Roland
Conclusion The Work of a Dreamwright – Transcending the Possible
1 The Dream Cache
Index