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by Roger Hall
Writing Your First Play, 2nd Edition
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. Action
Dramatic Action Provokes Questions
Dramatic Action Employs Verbs
Exercise 1.1
Evaluation
Example: A Man in a Bus Terminal
Evaluation
Where Ideas Come From
2. Direct Conflict
Obstacles and Conflict
Outcomes
Stage Terminology
Exercise 2.1
Example: Who’s Selling Out Now?
Example: Absolutely Nothing
Evaluation
3. Character
Character vs. Action
Example: A Woman At Christmas
Exercise 3.1
Example: Big Brother
Example: Conversation
Evaluation
4. Dialogue
Exposition and “Chunking”
Clichés
Exercise 4.1
Adverb Disease
Example: Good Idea, If It Works
Evaluation
5. Three-Character Conflict
Three in a Room
Dramatic Irony and Love Triangles
Exercise 5.1
Example: Break
Evaluation
Example: Nibbles
Evaluation
6. Writing From Life
Emotional Connections and Hazards
Exercise 6.1
Example: Cliché
Evaluation
Example: The Donut Shop
Evaluation
7. Writing From a Source
Dangers of Fact
Exercise 7.1
Example: Abracapocus
Evaluation
Example: Unattainable
Evaluation
8. Expanding Your Skills
Spontaneous Composition
Exercise 8.1
Example: Get a Life
Problem Solving: People, Places, and Props
Exercise 8.2
Location, Location, Location!
Exercise 8.3
Words, Words, Words
Exercise 8.4
Questions
Exercise 8.5
Live Theater
Exercise 8.6
Animals
Exercise 8.7
9. Writing Your Play
Why Now?
Style
Exercise 9.1
Example: Cable Man
Evaluation
10. Marketing Your Play
Format
Productions, Agents, and Contracts
Contests
Retreats, Residencies, Seminars, and the Web
Play-Leasing Companies and Publishers
Writing Your Second Play
Appendix: Classroom Procedures
Bibliography
Index
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Second Edition
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