 | Playwriting-in-Process: Thinking and Working Theatrically by Michael Wright
Buy new: £10.95 / Used from: £10.61 Imaginative and useful. Improvisations for playwrights. Good for teaching too. Unique 'troubleshooting' section.
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 | The Playwright's Guidebook by Stuart Spencer
Buy new: £11.20 / Used from: £10.60 Insightful introduction. Brilliant for writers from other genres want to explore what makes drama different.
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 | Three Uses of the Knife (Diaries, Letters and Essays): On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays) by David Mamet
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £7.28 Inspiring and often provocative treatise on drama.
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 | Writing in Restaurants by David Mamet
Buy used from: £0.03 Wide-ranging and highly readable essays on writing and life.
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 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £25.00 This gets a lot of flak from cineastes, but is a useful take on narrative structure, and isn't as prescriptive as the reputation suggests.
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 | Stealing Fire from the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story for Writers and Filmmakers by James Bonnet
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £11.54 Mythic/Jungian approach to story structure. A bit abstract, but go with the flow and it'll blow your mind.
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 | The Empty Space (Penguin Literary Criticism) by Peter Brook
Buy used from: £0.33 A must-read from the influential theatre director and thinker.
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