A book like this has been long overdue for reframing the discourses and assumptions that guide contemporary playwriting. The book offers students and theater practioners alike a wide assortment of viewpoints about how to decolonize and diversify their craft. Insight essays, practical tips, and engaging debates abound in this exquisitely currated anthology. To understand today's dramaturgy from a more global and multicultural perspective, it is necessary to unpack the models of the status quo; in their place, this book highlights dramaturgical views rooted in the theater of, variously, Japan, The Philippines, Zimbabwe, Cuba, many different Indigenous peoples, eco-centric traditions, docudrama, and much, much more. This book is both an implicit critique of the white hegemony of the American theater and a valuable toolkit of new and innovative approaches for creating plays. Highly recommended for anyone interested in learning about playwriting and dramaturgy; it is sure to become a classic in its field!

This is a groundbreaking collection of essays! Each chapter introduces a different narrative style of playwriting, and includes writing exercises to stretch and expand your writing. This is the modern guide to playwriting that you have been waiting for.

I cannot recommend this book enough.To not only playwriting students and practitioners and educators, but also to all theatre students and practitioners and educators across the field. It is revolutionary.These chapters shatter and rebuild what playwriting can be and ought to be in the future. The best part about it is that it's not just academic reading (although the academics of it are part of the brilliance): It gives you actionable exercises that you can do as a writer, or with students as an educator. The whole book has important implications for directors and designers as well.I have already taught multiple exercises from this book in workshops, and students LOVE it. New generations of theatre makers are itching for fresh, diverse approaches to storytelling, and this is the beginning of the answer. I will be teaching this book for years to come, and have recommended this book to everyone I have met since reading it.Bravo to the editors and contributors!