Combining a step-by-step analysis of writing techniques for stage and screen with insights on achieving mystery, poetry, and emotional momentum, Sherry Kramer provides an empowering guide for both emerging and established writers. This structured examination illustrates how audiences engage with a work in real time, using accessible language to help creators craft meaningful experiences. By drawing examples from a range of works, including plays, films, and streaming series like A Streetcar Named Desire and Fleabag, the study makes its concepts relatable to various artists working in "timebound art." It includes exercises developed with MFA writers from The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, offering entry points for artists to reflect on and develop their craft. Central to the discussion is the concept of the perception shift—an unexpected moment that sparks insight in the audience, encouraging them to reinterpret their experiences and consider their own lives anew. Kramer invites artists to deconstruct and reassemble their ideas about dramatic events, emphasizing that the audience's experience of meaning is paramount to the impact of the work itself.
Professor Ludwig Kramer Bücher
