Playwriting for Writers with (Some) Experience
F06
Robert Glaudini
The art and craft of playwriting: developing a personal voice, narrative, characters, and point of view. The workshop process of the class will be supplemented by individual conferences. There will be writing exercises in and out of class. Students will write one-acts with lengths of 10 and 15 pages. The plays will be limited to a universal setting, number of characters, “theme,” and length of speeches. The writing of a longer play, neither to exceed 40 nor to be less than 30 pages, will occupy the second half of the term. Only the number of characters will be limited in a three-draft, developmental process to discover the agony and ecstasy of rewriting.