How to write a play script

Use this activity sheet to plan a playscript – decide on a theme/setting to give structure to the task.

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When discussing playwriting, I often tend to characterize it as screenwriting's "down-to-earth older sister." The primary reason for this is the pure freedom of playwriting, something that at first left me feeling confused as a screenwriter when I took my first playwriting class. "What do you mean I can do whatever I want and that there are no rules?" I asked my professor. Schedule

If you’re here, it probably means you tried googling “play format” and got a bunch of confusing, different formats — I know I did when I tried to figure it out for myself. “UK format?” “Radio plays?”…

You have an idea for a play script — perhaps a very good idea. You want to expand it into a comedic or dramatic storyline, but how? Although you may want to dive right into the writing, your play will be much stronger if you spend the time...

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An award-winning playwright shares her secrets for how to write a play and create drama on stage.

When writing a short play, you will have no time to 'set up' the story. It's only ten to twelve minutes long, remember? Rather, think of it as walking into the middle of the story; more like a scene...but in this case it must have a beginning, middle, and end, all in roughly ten-twelve minutes.

I always see the script (for a 10 minute play) as a slice of time. ‘I Can’t Breathe’ was a slice of time before the event that prompted me writing the play. ‘Parkland Requie…