Introduction: beyond the tipping point
Strategies of language and character. On multivocality and speech genres
Polyvocality and the ascendancy of the hybrid play
The theatricality of character
The transformation of character
Len Jenkin's dramaturgy of character: from stage figures to archetypes
Mac Wellman: language-based character
Crossover poetics: Sarah Ruhl and Suzan Lori-Parks
Strategies of structure and form. Units and building blocks
Scenes, acts, and revisions
Foundations of contemporary monologue
Dialogic monologue: from structure to antistructure.