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When we first discussed the need for a book of this kind, we thought of it as ‘writing plays, scripts, and performance texts.’ But writing for performance is much more than this. A text that is written for or with the express purpose of performance can be a play, a series of monologues, or a performance blueprint or map, but it can be many other things as well.
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Harris, A., Jones, S.H. (2016). Beginnings. In: Writing for Performance. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-594-4_1
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