Editing Theatre technique (section)

==The playwright's craft==
Theatre technique is part of the [[playwright]]'s creative writing of drama, as a kind of [[mimesis]] rather than mere [[illusion]] or [[imitation]] of life, in that the playwright is able to present a reality to the audience that is different, yet recognisable to that which they usually identify with in their everyday lives.

Another aspect of this is that of creating the kind of [[dialogue]] that makes the playwright's characters come alive and allows for their development in the course of his dramatization.

The playwright's art also consists in the ability to convey to the audience the ideas that give essence to the drama within the frame of its structure. 
Finally, the feeling for the natural divisions of a play—including [[act (theater)|act]]s, [[scene (fiction)|scene]]s, and changes of place—its entries and exits, and the positioning of the [[cast member|cast]] are integral to playwriting technique.

One of the playwright's functions is that concerned with [[adaptation]]s of existing traditional drama, such as [[Charles Marowitz]]’s [[collage]]s of ''[[Hamlet]]'' and ''[[Macbeth]]'' and other re-interpretations of [[Shakespeare]]'s works, as well as [[Tom Stoppard]]’s approaches in ''[[Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead]]'', ''[[Dogg's Hamlet]]'', and ''[[Cahoot's Macbeth]]''.