Playwriting
Playwriting Exercise: Happy Objects
Over on Buzz Feed they have pictures of Happy Objects. Not, you know, objects with a cheery disposition, but that have happy faces somehow in them. They can’t help it, they look really happy. You...
Playwriting Exercise: Chairs
Sometimes I see a picture, hear a sentence, something flashes in front of my eyes and a dramatic conversation instantly forms. It’s a moment that would come alive on the stage. This is one of those pictures. I look at it and I see the dramatic possibilities. Do you?
*Playwriting Exercise: *
Write a scene in which the entire conversation takes place on stop of chairs. In fact there is a line of chairs from stage left to right and that’s the only thing the characters can step on.
- two characters – who are they, why are they there
- decide your environment – why are the characters on top of chairs (is it a flood like in the picture)
- Keep it short – don’t get bogged down in the notion of making it a play, start with a moment, a conversation – just get writing.
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