Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
What Fascinates You and the Action That Accompanies It
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: What Fascinates You and the Action That Accompanies It
Overview
“In this lesson, I will share the seven subjects that fascinate me. I will note that each of these subjects can be found in all the works I have written. These subjects can also be described as the ideas or themes you will find in your own plays. This lesson will help the student to focus on the ideas that fascinate them. It will be a shortcut to considering what stories to write about. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: What Fascinates You and the Action That Accompanies It , 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 determine the subjects that fascinate you. And I will illustrate that by discussing the subjects that fascinate me. So you have to think about it. What ideas fascinate you? Although people have many developing opinions about the world, they are often confused about what fascinates them. They have fascinations. But the teacher, has to pinpoint them and reflect them back to the students. It is one thing to be fascinated with some novel, Our Greek myths or some new brilliant singer. Are a movie star. But the student has to discover what is it about that situation that f...”
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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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