Tanika Gupta on Voice
Prolific author Tanika Gupta talks about stagecraft, highlighting the importance of voice and comic idiom in her writing.
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The tracks on this album offer an invaluable insight into a wide range of techniques and practices surrounding Creative Writing. Writers as diverse as Alan Ayckbourn, Ian McMillan and Tanika Gupta talk openly about their approaches and attitudes to all aspects of writing from original concept to final drafts and productions. Writing for stage, print, television and radio is discussed in engaging and articulate detail. This material forms part of The Open University course A363 Advanced creative writing.
Helen Blakeman and Setting
Playwright Helen Blakeman sees setting as integral to a play’s success and highlights the supporting importance of factors such as structure and voice...
Developing the Idea
Playwriting master Alan Ayckbourn reveals how he develops and connects ideas for his plays, and the meticulous process of structuring and ‘building’ a...
Alan Ayckbourn on Redrafting
Ayckbourn's approach to redrafting and rewriting scripts, and how dramatic ideas and twists emerge.
Alan Ayckbourn as Director
Alan Ayckbourn's work as a director, and how this informs his writing. The economy of playwriting, and the writer’s awareness of the limitations of th...
Alan Ayckbourn and Staging
Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the theatre, Alan Ayckbourn offers an insight into the varius methods of staging, drawing a link between his own ...
Adaptation and Breakdowns
Renowned writer David Edgar discusses his ideas on Aristotle’s unities, linking this to ways of adapting existing works.
Jane Rogers on Adapting for Television
Novelist and playwright Jane Rogers talks about the transition of one of her novels, Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, into a four part television series.
Jane Rogers as Novelist
Jane Rogers talks about her work as a novelist, and the methods of storytelling and voice she employs. She brings together various forms and approache...
Approaches to Contemporary Fiction
Jane Rogers talks about her work in terms of viewing herself as a contemporary novelist. She draws links to literary greats, and techniques like 'the ...