Writing from The Heart: Dramaturgy for TheatreWorks: _WFTH

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.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Dramaturgy for TheatreWorks: _WFTH_ by Yvonne

Hello Yvonne!

Your play is very refreshing and very intriguing.

My comments:

--Develop the first scene completely. Until you do so, your play will proceed with fits and starts.
--Page 5, End of Page: Marlon's dialogue is missing.
--Page 6, Third to Last Line: Is one X missing? Since your play is not yet fully written I have no idea what these Xs mean. Are these literally dialogue Xs or are they variables for something you still have not decided on?
--Page 7, Line 3: Are two Xs missing? The reader will tend to view all this as a cryptic puzzle.
--Page 8, Top of Page: Marlon's dialogue is missing.
--Settings are not clear. By Page 8, Ana should already be under arrest and Marlon should already be working deep into the case--this is what will propel your play forward rather than everyone waiting in agony for things to happen.
--Thrust your characters and their premise in the faces of your audiences. They will not know what is going on if, well into the scenes, they still do not know who the characters are and why they are there.