Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
Three Essential Questions in Every Play
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: Three Essential Questions in Every Play
Overview
“ In this lesson, you will learn the three essential questions every playwright should ask to make their play work. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: Three Essential Questions in Every Play , 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, you will learn the three essential questions every playwright should ask to make their play work. To do this, we will look at some fairy tales. and break down their story. the three essential questions. That you should ask for every story are one, Why now? Two. What does the character want? And three. What is stopping them from getting it? The first Fairy tale we're going to break down is Cinderella. Cinderella is a slave to her stepsisters and stepmother. Every day is the same. But why is today different? Why does the story start? The first question. Why now? And the answer...”
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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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