Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
You Are in Your Own Play Every Day
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: You Are in Your Own Play Every Day
Overview
“In this lesson, we will learn to recognize ourselves as a character in a play by observing our daily routines. The ‘wants’ of the character. The journey the character makes every day. The worlds the character goes through during that journey. The hurdles the character has to overcome. The final destination. This will illustrate how to begin writing your One-Minute Play. So, what essential elements do we need to make a play work? ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: You Are in Your Own Play Every Day, 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
“In this lesson, We will learn to recognize ourselves as a character in a play by observing the daily routines you go through. But first of all, Let me tell you what the final project for this course will be. By the end of it, you will have written your one-minute play and will know how to develop it into a full-length play. Going back to our main topic, Let's observe the wants of the character. That in this case will be you. The journey the character makes every day, the journey you make every day, the worlds, the care to go through during that journey. The worlds that you go through. the h...”
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Course summary for: Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
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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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