lundi 4 mai 2015

How To Write A Stage Play For The Next Show

By Stella Gay


Professionalism in play writing ranges from the formatting and the style of presentation to the way you put the names of your characters, how you arrange the colon in front of each name and the words of each character. For your writing to appear more presentable, professional and well turned-out, you must ensure you understand the instructions on how to write a stage play. Each name should be placed in its own space, but you can also assign a new space when writing the directions or a word showing what is going on in the performance.

Bone Structure or Police File Model puts attributes of a character into three different groupings; physical, emotional and social. Things such as body weight, color of the skin, height, muscularity fall under physical. Education, hobbies, job, religion, family, history, living standard and all that goes with the place of a person in the social order fall under social while Emotional contains things like mental health and all the psychological aspects of a person.

Though most of this information will not be part of a written script, you must attempt by all efforts possible to create a character that is detailed and speaking just from the looks. This article provides all the material facts and figures explaining why characters behave, act or perform the way they do. It helps you understand the reasons why for instance, a black character always sticks around black women.

Second model entails creating age and gender then letting the character to act or behave in the way they wish. Thirdly, compromise elucidation flanked by first and second models, but not in terms of quality. Get your hands on the names and genders of your characters, then briefly create a definition for each and every one.

Definition of a character helps to further delineates in comprehensive strokes who he really is. For each of your characters, come up with strong words that describes their position in the script; for instance, John is a father, an accountant and a tennis player. Bring out three different physical features and three other emotional traits to go along with them.

Own your story, it can be dramatic, funny and humorous if you desire because comedy always comes from the character in a performer. Even if the situation is so serious, you can use your character to create happiness as long as your plot is strong. Take account of a setup in your plot, an introduction of major characters; one who creates a conflict and another who brings in resolutions within the story.

After you have identified all the characters and assigned roles, begin with a paragraph and give description of what is happening. At least create some obstacles for a few characters then formulate a resolution on how to overcome them. After the character names and roles, you need to give each of them words that will keep the conversation flowing.

Always focus on the story because when writing comedy that is character driven, it may become even easier focusing on funny situations and jokes more than the plot. When you are done, read through your work and remove any unnecessary scenes that do not play a role in the entire story. Ensure all the scenes of your story have a purpose in regard to the audience you are targeting.




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