Challenge: Want to Write a Play or Screenplay?

I just learned about this from Catherine Sharp over on the Sharp Words blog …
Hosted by Script Frenzy,  the challenge is to write 100 pages of script in 30 days. I’ve tried their NaNoWriMo challenge in the past, but was unsuccessful. I was working 12-14 hours a day at the time, that didn’t leave much [...]

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Upstaged?

This past week I was lucky enough to attend not one, but two plays. One play was at my old alma mater, Cambria Heights High School, the one other at Bishop Carroll High School.
CH performed The Wiz, the 1975 Broadway musical adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The play features [...]

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A Quick Update…

It doesn’t look like my play is going to be produced during the 2007-2008 school year. Mrs. St. Pierre has already selected the play that they are going to produce. C’est la vie. There’s always next year and other schools to send it to.
On a different note – after talking to some of the children [...]

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A Confession about My Play

My play is not going as well as I had hoped.
There I said it. In fact, I’m not going to have it completed by my December 15th deadline. I should have known better than to try to accomplish something this grand while at the same time driving for FedEx Home Delivery. Particularly during the [...]

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365 Plays in 365 Days …

The other day I was reviewing some of the Google Alerts I subscribe to to stay on top of what is happening in the area of playwriting and I came across an alert about an experiment, playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks started on November 13, 2002. Parks was going to write a play [...]

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A Surprise Play is Begun

For the true beginning playwright, did you know that a play (or script) has basically three parts – character ID, dialogue and stage directions? Simple, I like that …
Last weekend my wife, daughters and I were sitting around our chimenea roasting hot dogs and toasting marshmallows one last time before our back-to-school-schedules get into full [...]

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Write a Play: Beginner’s Luck, Reticular Activator or Law of Attraction?

Have you ever noticed that after you make a decision to do something, oh, let’s say write a play, that things start to happen that will lead you to the successful completion of your goal or decision? Whatever you call it: beginners luck, your reticular activator (that’s the fancy name for the filter that’s between [...]

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How to Write a Play … in 4 Months or less.

This past May my daughter acted in her middle school play The XYZ Files, by Douglas Winter. The play was a spoof on the X-Files, and was very funny.
Afterwards, her English teacher and the director of the play, Mrs. St. Pierre, and I were talking about the play and all the work that went into [...]

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