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I was discussing the use of time in playwriting with my friend Madeline, when I remembered the book How Plays Work by David Edgar. Edgar’s chapter on structure covers the different uses of time and how they affect a play’s theme and meaning. Real time is a favorite structure of mine. I used it in Bystanders, and I’m using it …
This is a checklist for a successful premise, from the blog Storyfix, by author Larry Brooks. It’s pretty solid. A protagonist/hero whose life (within a given time, place, location, sociopolitical subtext) is interrupted, disrupted, or otherwise leads toward… (this being the setup of the story) a specific problem, need, or opportunity to which the hero must respond, launching a quest …
Ian Finley explains the typical structure of a play in simple terms. Ian holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of Performing Arts. In addition to teaching for 19 years, seven of which have been at Research Triangle High School, he is a professional actor and playwright, named the NC Piedmont Laureate in Playwriting in 2012. Photo of an Amish …
I love this passage on play structure from James Fritz, over at The Bruntwood Prize (which Fritz has been awarded). “How do you structure a play? Well, often that depends on what your play is trying to do: where does it want to take its audience? What is its intention? Different modes of performance require different structures and rhythms. The …