Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
Six Ideas to Help You Direct Your Play
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: Six Ideas to Help You Direct Your Play
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“I will introduce you to 6 ideas that will help you to direct your plays. These basic ideas will offer the ability to discuss your play as the director of the play. This is a different role from a playwright, but it offers another insight into bringing your play from the page to the stage. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: Six Ideas to Help You Direct Your 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, I will introduce you to six ideas that will help you to direct your play. As I mentioned in the previous lesson, It is a nice idea to invite actors to your house to read your play. But these basic ideas will offer you the ability to discuss your play. as the director. This is a different role from the playwright. But it offers insight into bringing your play and the page to the stage. So I want to offer you the writer. techniques when talking to actors about the direction of the play. These six ideas are conversation, power, want, choreography, delivery. And fun. Conversatio...”
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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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