Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Reading a play is like reading sheet music. The layman won't understand it at first glance. Only a director, playwright, scene designer, and actor have the capability to "sight-read" a script. It is the reason why published plays hardly sell, especially to the unenlightened.

When writing a play, use minimal set description and stage action. The director and scene designer will fill those in for you.

Read the published plays of Tennesse Williams--they contain very detailed sets, stage actions, and stage nuances. Yet, they were written into the script AFTER their premiere productions, NOT before--based on what Williams finally saw onstage.

Theater is teamwork. It is never a one-man or one-woman affair. It is the collaborative work of everyone, including the occurence of music, that goes into the definitive folio of a produced play.