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How to Start Producing a Play
What is Unique about Playwriting?
Different Genres of Plays
About the Lengths of Plays
Deciding on Setting for a Play
Deciding on Time Period for a Play
Importance of Cast Size for a Play
Motivations for Producing a Play
How to Budget for a Play
Different Types of Theaters
About Musical Plays
Inspiration for Play Making
Brainstorming for Play Production
Exercises for Creating Plot Points
A Guide to Play Production
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Summary: Learn how to decide on the setting for a play and the elements of the setting with expert playwriting advice in this free play production and theater video clip.
Steve Caverno attended the University of Southern Mississippi where he received a BA in theatre. Since graduating he has had several plays produced across the country. He is currently...read more
"STEVE CAVERNO: Hi. My name is Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'll be talking to you about playwriting basics. Now, we're going to talk about setting. Where do you set your play? You set it in an extravagant location like Verona, Italy, or in a foggy, murky atmosphere of Denmark where murder plots are going on and here's kings and queens and things like that. Well, here we're going to explore the different elements of setting. You can have one set and one scene, or you could have one set occurring with many different scenes on that set. You can also have multiple sets. So, let's explore one set. I have written a play called "A Ghost, a Zombie, and a Vampire" where the ghost, the zombie, and the vampire in a graveyard at night and the entire scene takes place on that one set, in the graveyard. Certainly, there's another play I've written which is called "Musing over Coffee," where different characters interact inside a coffee shop. And in that scene, there are several different scenes in the play, and those characters come on stage in different times and different costumes. So it's one set, but it's shown over a course of a week. And then, there are also multiple sets, perhaps unit sets, my play "Not Another Murder Mystery" features unit sets. One scene takes place in the study of a mansion, the other scene takes in a foyer, and then a dining hall. And so, we jump back and forth between alternating sets. And these are some of the things you might consider when writing a play. If you're writing a short play, you don't want to have five different locations. You only want to have one location. So, you might have to describe things instead of actually taking the audience there. And when you look at some of these, that's some of the things you might want to be thinking about when you write a play."
eHow Article: Deciding on Setting for a Play
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