Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Playwriting (14) How to structure a scene



Conflict | a clash of interest, motive or plan.  Subtext | two things have to be happening at the same time, sometimes people don’t say what they mean.  Dramatic irony | we as the audience know something, but then the characters do something we didn’t quite expect.

Over the next few weeks, I capture episodes of the National Theatre: Playwriting series. These are instrumental lessons, as I work at my play "The Room." The above are my notes.
 

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