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Just posting here to say hi and to test my signature. I just put up a script here and I'm more than willing to read and reply to scripts here or by e-mail. I've done a theatre degree and have written plays that were put on, having a crack at screenplays now, after travelling for a few years. Hopefully I've got something to offer.
Ive fancied writing a play, indeed was thinking of writing for radio the other day, but couldn't find any suitable templates and Final draft doesn't do radio.
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Theatre plays are really different yeah. Everything you write has be doable on a stage. And if you look at some older classics, there's almost no action, at the very least a massive imbalance to dialogue. Most plays with more abstract elements or little dialogue tend to be devised by a working group then written up by a dramaturge.
When I was 20 I wrote a play and produced it, putting it in to a festival, then we won and I went off to study theatre at college.
Just like short film, the best way to start is with 'one act plays' and the best examples to look at for general format are more minimalist stuff like ... maybe early Harold Pinter? The Caretaker is good: characters, drama, single location and lots of unsaid meaning and Absurdism. In the USA maybe someone like Edward Albee?
Weirdly though, in the interim I was doing prose and articles, so my first attempts at screenplays come out way to verbose.
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