HOW TO WRITE A PLAY | 10 Playwriting Activities

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How do you write a play? Here are 10 playwriting activities to start you off on your writing journey.
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I’m Alex Packer and I’m a theatre director and workshop leader. I’ve worked in theatre for the last 15 years in the West End, around the UK and internationally as well as in several UK drama schools and universities. I’ve created Apex Drama Tools as a digital resource for teachers and students of drama. These videos can be student-facing resources or the exercises and tools can be adapted and used by teachers. If you want to work with me get in touch apexdramatools@gmail.com
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - Interrupted Ritual
2:29 - Flashback / Memory
3:41 - Character Questionnaire
4:46 - Job Interview / Firing
6:07 - Diary Entry / Therapy Session
7:34 - In Late Out Early
9:26 - Write Your Bad Ideas
10:57 - Voice In My Head
12:12 - Last Words
13:36 - Digital Dialogue

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  • @iasminaiabloncic316
    @iasminaiabloncic3162 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!!! Best video I’ve found on this subject! 👏🏻

  • @itsgus26
    @itsgus262 жыл бұрын

    I could sleep on a matress made of his voice

  • @butterflymoon6368
    @butterflymoon63682 жыл бұрын

    This is actually fantastic. Thanks.

  • @Kingofficial0121
    @Kingofficial01212 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this, it really helped me see all the holes in my play!

  • @anthonylewis7361
    @anthonylewis7361 Жыл бұрын

    Oh my damn, I am a new writer and have started on a play but put it on pause to challenge myself to write a TV show and now I feel highly motivated by these tips. I got stuck tbh but this has me on "GO-MODE"

  • @lucia5411
    @lucia54119 ай бұрын

    This video is so helpful and well made! Thank you so much!

  • @bennyhill3505
    @bennyhill3505 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Best type of informative video I've found so far..

  • @imanthafonseka5604
    @imanthafonseka56042 жыл бұрын

    Have to write a 20 min play. This really

  • @christeenfrancis7303
    @christeenfrancis73036 ай бұрын

    just learned loads of stuff....thanks

  • @optout8816
    @optout881611 ай бұрын

    Oh my goodness. I am so thankful for you. This video offers great advice.

  • @dancomwangangi1011
    @dancomwangangi10112 жыл бұрын

    You've really helped

  • @AdenikeAdeyemi-ot6de
    @AdenikeAdeyemi-ot6de2 ай бұрын

    Some how lovely

  • @marelischoeman3177
    @marelischoeman31772 жыл бұрын

    This is very helpful, thank you!

  • @EleanaSmith
    @EleanaSmithАй бұрын

    Examples i thought of start at an event: Beetlejuice Diary entrys: Heathers, dear evan hansen

  • @rameshwaritirandas8088
    @rameshwaritirandas80885 ай бұрын

    Nice

  • @cerealkillar9101
    @cerealkillar9101 Жыл бұрын

    his voice sounds relaxing lol

  • @kjonesnewyork1
    @kjonesnewyork1 Жыл бұрын

    Martin Scorsese who is known for his director role often used this style of starting a sentence but ends it with Subtleties that express the summation of what is being expressed. This was brilliantly executed in many of his later films like Goodfellas and Casino. In a bar scene where Joe Pesci (Tommy) is reflecting on a bank Job he did in Secaucus. He describing a situation to his comrades but is interrupted and the momentum of his story he's telling is interrupted and so is the captive audience at the table; In other words, this waiter's timing could not have been worse. As the waiter leans in to discreetly yet obviously discuss an outstanding tab He owes, Pesci agitated and offended manages to maintain control over the situation with a quick comedic response: "Bing! I thought I was getting Pinched over here; he goes on to say "this guy's hanging on my neck like a vulture; like impending danger but he doesn't say the entire word danger; he says like impending dane...Yet the audience knows what he's getting at.There are many such unfinished lines surrounding scenes especially scenes that include the woman playing his mother. She is a pro at sarcastic interjection.. Her character is so natural. He wanted to borrow her large cutting knife (for nefarious reasons) and she quips: 'Well, bring it back, You know eh... the audience gets that she's use to him not being too reliable.Or when in the same scene at the dinner table she reaches under the table an pulls out a painting she created.. She's use to not being taken too seriously as far as Tommy is concerned and says look at my beautiful painting. Deniro who plays Jimmy says " Wow one dog goes one way, the other dog is going the other way" as they laugh, she says "Yeah, one is going EAST, the other is going West, SO WHAT"? This is an inferred emotion of defense where facial gesture and body language cooperate with unfinished but inferred lines.This is such a noteworthy style of directing and a very relatable technique that this director took liberties to include; his input as director in my opinion makes this a great movie; one that I could watch at least once a year. Scorcese's knack for AD Lib, coupled with his knowledge of authentic dialogue of a particular group or region holds its place in the analls of cinematic superiority.

  • @joshe694
    @joshe6945 ай бұрын

    The music in the backgrounds is annoying, so even though what you're saying is great advice the music effects the subconscious to stress out and destroy the aspiring writer

  • @MausamThapa-oe8wi
    @MausamThapa-oe8wi3 ай бұрын

    Aangragi muji

  • @robbieanson1218
    @robbieanson12182 жыл бұрын

    I do have to say that I never wrote a play before her bum trying to do a movie so plays is Salt Lake of a movie right? So if that is true then you’re video is a little bit helpful to me but a lot of it is not helpful Joshua know that. Order to make a play is to write one order to make it a place I have more than just one people acting that’s how you write a play Twitter does not help nearby zoom call or you can just write the play and let Schawl do it for you but a college or a high school or something like that I should know. About that and let them eat a script for you I wanna do is hang over the place and say go ahead and script it anyway you want Or fail to do otherwise to fire people does not help at all you can find ways to compromise with them defined all right rule for them and they’re just gonna have a bad attitude that is why don’t you give them a RAW that they would have an attitude with what does it give you attitude then shut on the door because that’s how you lose that actor or if you replaced him or somebody else does not help And if that someone was act like a fool in front of you then you’ll give them apart as a fool acting like a damn fool from everybody else. Then you would give them apart where they can act like a fool order to make them feel better about themselves and that is how you get the better of the other person instead of always firing somebody just because they wanna act like a complete ass in front of you if they wanna episode of complete ass in front of you get them a rule that won’t make them feel like an ass in front of somebody else And that’s how you successfully can have a play and make it interesting

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