Writing from The Heart: Dramaturgy for TheatreWorks Singapore: "Ah Ma Goes Home" by Michelle

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, October 15, 2018

Dramaturgy for TheatreWorks Singapore: "Ah Ma Goes Home" by Michelle

Hello Michelle!

Your play is still undeveloped as it was before, but its subject matter is very interesting. If you feel that you are having a difficult time advancing, first ask yourself the following:

1) Have you chosen the best medium for your message? Is your story better suited to a novel or a movie rather than to a stage play?
2) Which language is your play coming out more consistently in?
3) Who will come out as the real protagonist of the play, Ah Mah or the Narrator?

Your premise is not yet clear, but your draft is promising. I hope that you can work on it some more.
So far, if this were a novel, the structure is after Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and if this were a play, the structure is after Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie".