Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
How to Create Essential Scenes for a Full-Length Play
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: How to Create Essential Scenes for a Full-Length Play
Overview
“We will look at the first OMP play and build out essential scenes from that play that you can develop into a full-length play. You will concentrate on the areas where you can find the drama. You will look at the scene you have built and magnify the areas that can propel the story forward. These scenes are built around the “What do I want to know more about” idea. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: How to Create Essential Scenes for a Full-Length 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, We will take the one minute play about illegal immigration and pinpoint the essential scenes that True questions can help the play evolve into a bigger story, a full-length play. I will look at that play and ask, what Characters are essential to developing the story. and I will link them to a larger story with an evolving plot. We will read the first one minute play and discuss What other scenes could be built out from this short scene? For example, in the original short play. This is the day Liam is being introduced to Daphne's parents. An essential scene would be when Liam...”
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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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