3-Person Scene: Day 3; Charles Busch; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom: Day 2

Lab:

Take 10 minutes to watch the following video advice & tips about playwriting.

• Tips on Writing a Play - Susan Booth
• Playwriting Advice: James Graham
• Dan O'Brien's advice about Playwriting
• We all write bad material. Show & Tell: Cringe-Worthy Look at Teenage Notebooks (Cracked)

Please continue writing your 3-person scene drafts. See previous posts for details.

• Develop your plots
• Develop your characters
• Create and develop an idea or theme for your play (a premise...what is your play about?)
• Try to work in a dark moment and enlightenment, complications, conflict, and a climax for your play
• Continue to give objectives to your characters beat by beat

More information about Commedia dell-arte.

Classroom:

We will continue our reading and discussion of Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.

HOMEWORK: Complete one other play from the compilation. Take notes on the play's premise, MDQ, inciting incident, complications, conflicts, characters, crisis or turning point, dark moment(s), enlightenment(s), rising action, climax, resolution, etc.