Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
First Draft to Final Draft
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: First Draft to Final Draft
Overview
“We will illustrate the differences between the first draft and the final draft. We will read another one-minute play and consider its development from the first draft to the final draft. In this case, it is a new idea that illustrates how we can use spectacle to highlight the theatricality in a play and how we can tighten the lines to fit the one-minute requirement of the project. This tightening will give us an insight into how a playwright can edit their work and still maintain their primary idea. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: First Draft to Final Draft , 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 illustrate the differences between the first draft and the final draft. It is important to see a project true to its end. In this case, I will compare and contrast changes in character. Plot and dialogue. To illustrate the differences. and how those choices should remain flexible as we play with the play. So in the previous lesson, We read the immigration play called Tough. the first draft. Between Daphne and Liam. And in this lesson, we're going to read the final draft of that play and note the changes that have occurred. One of the first things I mentioned was to s...”
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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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