Playwriting

Great stories deserve to be retold, and this includes adaptating them into new media. Adapting a novel into a stage play is one way of paying tribute to a beloved work and giving it life in a new...

Becoming a writer is an exciting endeavor. Stringing words together to entertain others is an enjoyable skill. But, if you want to become a playwright, that takes an entirely different set of...

Some script writers feel they are "avant garde" enough to leave plot lines open at the end of a narrative script, but they're not thinking about their audience. In most cases, leaving plot lines...

Goals and obstacles are important in a play because these aspects of a script are part of setting up a plot. Goals and obstacles, as well as other character events, give backbone to your plot and...

Everybody knows the climax is one of the most (if not the most) important parts of a play. Most good script writers wouldn't complete a script for a theater presentation, even a one-act, without...

Writing different dialects into plays gives them flavor and helps to explore cultural diversity, but sometimes, it becomes problematic. Too much specific dialect written into a play can make the...

While there are many different ways to direct all the different types of plays which exist in the world, it is a fact that different plays require different directorial skills. If you are an...

Writing a one act play is a little more involved than a shorter work and all types of plays require use of different elements.

Full length plays require a great deal more pages than other types of plays. But the time, effort, and work put in can be the same as a much shorter work if you remember a few things.

One of the most challenging art forms to master is the ten minute play. There is so much freedom and so many places you may falter that the ten minute play is not for the faint of heart. If you...