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playwriting Definition

play·writ·ing (plārīt′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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