Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
Influences
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I have added many influences in my life that have offered me, either knowingly or unknowingly, inspiration for building a plot, shaping fully rounded characters and developing dynamic, gripping plays. Here are just a few of them. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage. Master playwriting fundamentals: create powerful plots, develop characters, and learn storytelling techniques for stage and screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“I have added many influences in my life. That have offered me, either knowingly or unknowingly, inspiration for building a plot. shaping fully rounded characters, and developing dynamic, gripping plays. In this lesson, I would like to share just a few of them. Tom Murphy. Wrote a play called Conversations on a Homecoming. It was, in a small town, in Ireland. I saw this play first. Everyone in that town was gathered for the one night performance. And after the first 15 minutes, the local priest got up and left the performance because he disliked the fruity language. and the unholy actions. b...”
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Ronán Noone
A course by Ronán Noone
Ronán Noone is a playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. After graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, he started working for various newspapers in his native Ireland. With time, Ronán realized that although he had a passion for storytelling, journalism wasn’t his medium. He started writing plays and eventually immigrated to the U.S. to study with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University.
His plays have been on stages in Spain, Ireland, Canada, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, London, UK, India, and the U.S. Ronán has won a national award for playwriting from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the prestigious Boston, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Script, including three best new play awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England.
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