Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
Tightening Dialogue to Stage your Story
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: Tightening Dialogue to Stage your Story
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll talk about how to start looking at the stage as a place to tell a story. We will activate your imagination so you can use inanimate objects to give the audience a location and a time period for your characters. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: Tightening Dialogue to Stage your Story, 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
“So part of the reason I gave you the location and time period lesson. was to give you an example of how to build dialogue. And I'm going to give an exercise now using that as an example. the exercise has this template. It is two characters. We need to know the relationship to each other. Where they are located, What is the time period? And the prop we use will be a fridge or a table. So we can imagine it's in the kitchen. And you have to do all of this within four lines of dialogue. Now, I have already the dialogue written. And I've used Final Draft, the software I always use for screenplay...”
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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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