Writing Your Own Plays: Creating, Adapting, Improvising

Do you want to put on a play, but have no script or ideas yet? Is there a story you love and want to share with others in play form? Do you have a script that needs some changes to make it fit your group of actors? Do you just enjoy writing and want to try your hand at a play? This practical handbook for the young playwright includes: choosing a story, preparing a first draft, weighing artistic and practical considerations, fine tuning, using rehearsals to refine play making, conventions of writing a play script.