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This book includes:
- The easiest way to construct a play
- 7 ideas for great new plays
- How to produce your own play
- How to get funding
- Tricks of the trade
- What to do if there aren't enough actors available
- How to make sure your play has audience appeal
- How to guarantee applause
- How to get the audience involved
- Breaking the fourth wall
- How stage time differs from real time
- Working with a narrator
- Behind the scenes tips
- Special effects ideas
- Why controversy sells - and what to do about it
- How to adapt a novel into a play
- The importance of scale
- Using a large stage, and using a small stage
- How to create more space on stage
- The importance of off-stage timing
- What to do if your play is rejected
- Why it's important to listen to the audience
- How to help local actors to grow
- Plus lots of tips, tricks and clever ideas for writing and
staging plays
that will get everyone talking
- And much more - far too many great ideas
to list here!
Sample idea: Characters being themselves
Stage plays are character-based. The plot arises from who the
characters are, the dilemmas they face, and what they do to resolve
them. It's worth making a list of the sort of characters you'd
like to put in your play, and the sorts of things that might
happen if they were there. For example, a cheat or a liar would
be found out. A thief would get caught. Someone who cuts corners,
or someone who is overly pedantic might find himself in an awkward
situation of his own making. A man with a fondness for the ladies
would get into trouble over a lady. Someone with a drinking problem might find
his dilemma arising from something he did (or failed to do) while he was drunk.
There are thousands more character types, all of which have
the potential to get themselves into trouble because of who they
are and what they do while just being themselves. They're all
great characters for your play. You only need a few characters
like this and the play will practically write itself, as you
let them find their way into trouble and watch as they try to
get out of it again.
[EXTENSION] You might like to try coming up
with a stock of twenty or so
strong characters and then mix and match perhaps six of them at random to see
what sort of stories arise. Each random set of characters will work for and
against each other to solve their individual dilemmas, and create and solve
group dilemmas, while some of them get deeper and deeper into trouble. Will
they resolve their dilemmas by the end? Or will their problems remain, or be
even worse? That's up to you. They will certainly be very different people
by the end though. Their efforts to solve their problems will have taken a
toll on them, changed their outlook or attitude, perhaps altered their behaviour,
broken bad habits, started new ones, and so on. But they might have a whole
new set of problems. And the final curtain might fall just as a major new dilemma
is revealed - one that arises out of the things that happened earlier.
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