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Table of Contents

Foreword Phoef Sutton

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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