playwriting
playwriting
Definition
play·writ·ing (plā′rīt′iŋ)
noun
the art, profession, or work of writing plays
playwriting
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- study: He completed an extra year at Harvard, studying playwriting, but he never had any luck selling his plays in New York.
- teach: During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses.
- include: This includes some playwriting, improvisation skills, text based work and devised work.
- have: I was aware that these are people who had playwriting 2000 years ago with its long and unbroken traditions.
Preposition: in
- way: You come in talking about playwriting in a European way and there are all sorts of assumptions there that are not necessarily relevant.
Adjective modifier
- contemporary: The Bush Theater also has become the home of contemporary Japanese playwriting in Britain.
- British: USE ONCE AND DESTROY ' ... this show marks another step in Douglas ' emergence as a major new voice in British playwriting ' .
- original: The analysis of the dramatic structure of playscripts in such a way that this knowledge can be applied and developed in their original playwriting.
Modifies a noun
- competition: The first time I walked in I saw a poster up for their playwriting competition.
- workshop: During the past two years, there has been a total of 415 playwriting workshops.
- talent: The space enables the Royal Exchange to present work especially aimed at younger audiences and to develop stronger links with local playwriting talent.
- skill: As Education and Workshop Officer at Soho Theater I run courses for young writers to develop playwriting skills.
- course: Scene & Heard - £ 18,000 Toward the costs over three years of delivering a playwriting course for disadvantaged young children.
- culture: In Europe, no country has as flourishing a playwriting culture as we do anyway.
Noun used with modifier
- radio: Melanie Harris will take you through the nuts and bolts of radio playwriting, including how work is commissioned.
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