Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
How to Format Your Plays
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: How to Format Your Plays
Overview
“I will show you how to write a play on the page. We will write a title for your play. We will describe the setting, time, and characters. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: How to Format Your Plays , 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, I will show you how to write a play on the page. We will write a title for your play and we will describe a setting time in characters. So I am using the Dramatist Guild format for how to write a play on the page. They've taken it from Tennessee Williams, the famous playwright, his play Not About Nightingales. And here you can see in blue, How? They've explained exactly where everything works on a page. but I'll run through it. So that we can Just be sure about what they have put up here. This is one of the most important things I want to remind everybody of. So when I'm tea...”
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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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