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PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: HOW TO WRITE A PLAYCHAPTER 1CAST PAGE ELEMENTMUSICALSETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Introduction. This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica.Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural PLAYWRITING 101: THE PLAY'S THE THING AND TYPES OF PLAYS The Play's the Thing. The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Soundsgreat.
PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY DEVELOPMENT Story Development. Writing off the top of our head sometimes is great to capture a fleeting idea. But real planning and preparation work can save the writer a lot of frustration and backpedaling at a later date. Outlining and breaking down the dramatic elements of a story are well worth the effort. By playing contrasts and conflict to maximum PLAYWRITING 101: TITLE PAGE ELEMENT Chapter 7 Title Page Element. The Rules: Vertically centered on the page, type the play's title in all Caps, centered directly below type your name in mixed case. Keep your title page simple - no oversized letters, color or fancy graphics. Being something of a minimalist, my title page might look something like this PLAYWRITING 101: WHAT DOES A PLAY LOOK LIKE? WHAT SHOULD Chapter 5 What Does a Play Look Like? Not Like This! You may have seen plays that look something like this: ALEX. I want somewhere with alawn. MERC.
PLAYWRITING 101: LYRICS AND STAGE DIRECTION ELEMENT Chapter 13 Lyrics. If you're writing a musical or a "play with music," if words are to be sung, they need to be set apart from spoken dialogue. Lyrics are written in ALL CAPS, but in all other respects, lyrics are written in dialogue format. PLAYWRITING 101: DIFFERENT THEATER SPACES A black box is a performance space that is exactly what it sounds like: a black-painted square or rectangle. A true black box - that is, one with no fixed seating - is the ultimate in flexibility, because the theater can configure the audience arrangement to match the staging needs of your play, rather than staging your play around theaudience.
PLAYWRITING 101: PAGE BREAK RULES AND BINDING The Rules: Do not break dialogue or stage directions in mid-sentence.; Do not page break between a character name and the dialogue that follows.; See Continuing Dialogue for instructions about how to break in the middle of a character's dialogue. PLAYWRITING 101: INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSION FORMATS AND Chapter 17 International Submission Formats. While the Manuscript Format as described in this article is the rule in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and most theaters anywhere in the world will accept it, there are other formats prevalent in other countries. PLAYWRITING 101: SUBMITTING YOUR WORK Chapter 16 Submitting Your Work. The Rules: Understand that large cast shows are very expensive, often prohibitively so, for professional theaters to produce. Schools, on the other hand, often need large cast shows to involve lots of students. Shows with lots of female roles will be particularly welcome at the typical high school. PLAYWRITING 101: HOW TO WRITE A PLAYCHAPTER 1CAST PAGE ELEMENTMUSICALSETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Introduction. This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica.Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural PLAYWRITING 101: THE PLAY'S THE THING AND TYPES OF PLAYS The Play's the Thing. The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Soundsgreat.
PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: HOW TO WRITE A PLAYCHAPTER 1CAST PAGE ELEMENTMUSICALSETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Introduction. This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica.Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural PLAYWRITING 101: THE PLAY'S THE THING AND TYPES OF PLAYS The Play's the Thing. The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Soundsgreat.
PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY DEVELOPMENT Story Development. Writing off the top of our head sometimes is great to capture a fleeting idea. But real planning and preparation work can save the writer a lot of frustration and backpedaling at a later date. Outlining and breaking down the dramatic elements of a story are well worth the effort. By playing contrasts and conflict to maximum PLAYWRITING 101: WHAT DOES A PLAY LOOK LIKE? WHAT SHOULD Chapter 5 What Does a Play Look Like? Not Like This! You may have seen plays that look something like this: ALEX. I want somewhere with alawn. MERC.
PLAYWRITING 101: LYRICS AND STAGE DIRECTION ELEMENT Chapter 13 Lyrics. If you're writing a musical or a "play with music," if words are to be sung, they need to be set apart from spoken dialogue. Lyrics are written in ALL CAPS, but in all other respects, lyrics are written in dialogue format. PLAYWRITING 101: DIFFERENT THEATER SPACES A black box is a performance space that is exactly what it sounds like: a black-painted square or rectangle. A true black box - that is, one with no fixed seating - is the ultimate in flexibility, because the theater can configure the audience arrangement to match the staging needs of your play, rather than staging your play around theaudience.
PLAYWRITING 101: PAGE BREAK RULES AND BINDING The Rules: Do not break dialogue or stage directions in mid-sentence.; Do not page break between a character name and the dialogue that follows.; See Continuing Dialogue for instructions about how to break in the middle of a character's dialogue. PLAYWRITING 101: SUBMITTING YOUR WORK Chapter 16 Submitting Your Work. The Rules: Understand that large cast shows are very expensive, often prohibitively so, for professional theaters to produce. Schools, on the other hand, often need large cast shows to involve lots of students. Shows with lots of female roles will be particularly welcome at the typical high school. PLAYWRITING 101: INTERNATIONAL SUBMISSION FORMATS AND Chapter 17 International Submission Formats. While the Manuscript Format as described in this article is the rule in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and most theaters anywhere in the world will accept it, there are other formats prevalent in other countries. PLAYWRITING 101: HOW TO WRITE A PLAYCHAPTER 1CAST PAGE ELEMENTMUSICALSETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Introduction. This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica.Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: THE PLAY'S THE THING AND TYPES OF PLAYS The Play's the Thing. The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Soundsgreat.
PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACTMUSICAL NUMBERSMEANING
Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: HOW TO WRITE A PLAYCHAPTER 1CAST PAGE ELEMENTMUSICALSETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Introduction. This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf, whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica.Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS, the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural PLAYWRITING 101: SETTING AND AT RISE DESCRIPTION ELEMENT Setting and At Rise Description Element. Typically, the At Rise and Setting Description are left indented at approximately 3.25" (a little more than half across the page,) running to the right margin. The Rules: When your play, or any new scene or act, begins, the readerwants
PLAYWRITING 101: THE PLAY'S THE THING AND TYPES OF PLAYS The Play's the Thing. The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Soundsgreat.
PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: CAST PAGE ELEMENT Here you can also include any setting information, whether there's an intermission in your play, or no obvious act break. If you want the play to run without intermission, tell us that too. Here's the Cast Page from my play Milk and Cookies.. Cast of Characters MARGE NANCY REAGAN BALLMOTH, harried thirty-something mother JACKIE, her ten-year-old son, played by the actor who plays Rufus BRUCE PLAYWRITING 101: MANUSCRIPT FORMAT ELEMENTS AND PLAY PAGE Chapter 6 Manuscript Format Elements. The Rules: Manuscript format is the only format to use when you are submitting your script to theater companies, contests, publishers, agents and other theater opportunities. The guiding principle here is easy reading. Title Page; Cast Page; Musical Numbers Page (musicals only); Act/Scene Heading PLAYWRITING 101: THE STAGE AND CHARACTER NAME ELEMENT Character Name Element. Characters' names may appear in two ways: before dialogue and contained in the stage directions. Character names that precede dialogue are always capitalized aligned at a 2.5" tab stop. In stageplays, opposed to screenplays, you are permitted to use boldface to further set the character name apart. PLAYWRITING 101: DIALOGUE ELEMENT Dialogue Element. Writing good dialogue is hard, but formatting it is easy. Dialogue, which is always mixed case, single-spaced, typically runs margin to margin and follows the character name on the next line. A blank line follows between the dialogue and the next character's name. A formatting program will do the spacing and margin adjusting PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACTMUSICAL NUMBERSMEANING
Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: STORY STRUCTURE AND WRITE TO BE READ Virtually all plays, as much as we rail against the way some screenwriters have turned this into a cookie-cutter, divide into what has come to be called three-act structure. Here's where you get to impress your friends with your fancy verbiage: The first act is the Protasis, or exposition. The second act is PLAYWRITING 101: 'MUSICAL' NUMBERS PAGE ELEMENT AND ACT Chapter 9 'Musical' Numbers Page Element. The Rules: In a musical, include the Musical Numbers Page after the Cast Page. The exact format varies, but think two columns: in the left column list the titles of the songs, and the right column, left indented approximately 3", list the performing characters. PLAYWRITING 101: GLOSSARY A Page A revised page that extends beyond the original page, going onto a second page. (i.e. Page 1, 1A, 2, 3, 3A) Abbreviations shortcuts used in scripts such V.O., O.C. PLAYWRITING 101: WHAT DOES A PLAY LOOK LIKE? WHAT SHOULD Chapter 5 What Does a Play Look Like? Not Like This! You may have seen plays that look something like this: ALEX. I want somewhere with alawn. MERC.
PLAYWRITING 101: STORY DEVELOPMENT Story Development. Writing off the top of our head sometimes is great to capture a fleeting idea. But real planning and preparation work can save the writer a lot of frustration and backpedaling at a later date. Outlining and breaking down the dramatic elements of a story are well worth the effort. By playing contrasts and conflict to maximum PLAYWRITING 101: TITLE PAGE ELEMENT Chapter 7 Title Page Element. The Rules: Vertically centered on the page, type the play's title in all Caps, centered directly below type your name in mixed case. Keep your title page simple - no oversized letters, color or fancy graphics. Being something of a minimalist, my title page might look something like this PLAYWRITING 101: LYRICS AND STAGE DIRECTION ELEMENT Chapter 13 Lyrics. If you're writing a musical or a "play with music," if words are to be sung, they need to be set apart from spoken dialogue. Lyrics are written in ALL CAPS, but in all other respects, lyrics are written in dialogue format. PLAYWRITING 101: SUBMITTING YOUR WORK Chapter 16 Submitting Your Work. The Rules: Understand that large cast shows are very expensive, often prohibitively so, for professional theaters to produce. Schools, on the other hand, often need large cast shows to involve lots of students. Shows with lots of female roles will be particularly welcome at the typical high school. PLAYWRITING 101: DIFFERENT THEATER SPACES A black box is a performance space that is exactly what it sounds like: a black-painted square or rectangle. A true black box - that is, one with no fixed seating - is the ultimate in flexibility, because the theater can configure the audience arrangement to match the staging needs of your play, rather than staging your play around theaudience.
PLAYWRITING 101
INTRODUCTION
This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jonathan Dorf , whose plays have been produced in every US state and on every continent but Antarctica. Co-Chair of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and longtime playwriting advisor to Final Draft, he co-founded YouthPLAYS , the publisher of plays for young actors and audiences, and has served as US cultural envoy to Barbados and Visiting Associate Professor in the graduate playwriting program at Hollins University. He received his B.A. magna cum laude in Dramatic Writing and Literature from Harvard College and his M.F.A. in Playwriting from UCLA. Creator of the book _Young Playwrights 101_ and the course Introduction to Playwriting,
Jonathan Dorf is available as a script consultant.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
* The Play's the Thing and Types of Plays * Different Theater Spaces * Story Structure and Write to be Read* Story Development
* What Does a Play Look Like? What Should My Play Look Like? * Manuscript Format Elements and Play Page Layout * Title Page Element* Cast Page Element
* 'Musical' Numbers Page Element and Act/Scene Heading Element * Setting and At Rise Description Element * The Stage and Character Name Element* Dialogue Element
* Lyrics and Stage Direction Element * Transition Element * Page Break Rules and Binding * Submitting Your Work * International Submission Formats and ConclusionRECOMMENDED TOOLS
* Final Draft 9 Screenwriting Software * Online screenwriting software Copyright © Active Interest Media All rights reserved. Privacy PolicyDetails
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