If you submit your new play to anyone they will not read it if it is not in a proper format. And that led me to create five, custom Journals and Handbooks which include how to write a play and how to create exciting characters.ġ. After all, 45 play scripts ago and seventeen years earlier I began writing my first script. So I thought what a perfect time to give my readers six tips on writing their first stage play. I am frequently asked ‘ how can you be so prolific?’, ‘how do you write so many plays?’ ‘where do you get your ideas?’ A state prison, a haunted lighthouse, my days in Hollywood, the news of the day or remembering the stories of my childhood. The ideas for my plays come to me in a little kernel of truth and I am inspired. And it is a great exercise for the writer to hone and edit their writing skills. The ten minute play does not sacrifice excellent writing and content for brevity. It’s more attractive to the director or educator, for economic reasons, if there are no sets, no costumes, and minimal props needed. It can have costumes and sets, certainly, but ten minute plays are most popular because of their simplicity. It’s only ten to twelve minutes long, remember? Rather, think of it as walking into the middle of the story more like a scene…but in this case it must have a beginning, middle, and end, all in roughly ten-twelve minutes.Ī ten minute play (or one act) is 10-15 pages written in a proper format. The station owners, a couple in their 70’s, have invited back their old favorite acts for one last nostalgic show.When writing a short play, you will have no time to ‘set up’ the story. But this year, tradition is swept aside, when the Midnight Rider adopts a new team of transportation, encounters unique celebrities, and plunges down unpredictable chimneys.Ī radio station in a small southern town, W.O.R.K., is signing off the air after 50 years. Performing before live radio audiences, seniors will carry its listeners across the starry skies with the jolly ole’ man in the red suit. The matzo balls have gone missing from Sunny Acres Retirement Home and Holmes and Watson are on the case–Shirley Holmes and Dottie Watson, that is! Tune into this old-fashioned radio play! The Old West comes to life as Tina Latigo and her French sidekick, Lisette, work to bring justice to women everywhere. A strong script with plenty of intrigue plus sound effects makes a super holiday show! This old-fashioned radio murder mystery suspense comedy is a real cliffhanger! The station manager of WMOO radio assigns the sound effects to the live radio audience and chaos ensues.Ĭorly promises her new beau, an allergist, that she’s pet-free, but it gets tense. This collection of ten comedy sketches, reminiscent of radio shows of the ’40s and ’50’s, features a delightfully quarrelsome couple, Carol and Quentin Quibble, in the hilarious skirmishes of everyday life.ġ1 parts plus 3 commercial announcers, all for men or women The guest actor and actress go off script and end up destroying the entire show. As a soap opera is being broadcast, the audience is led to believe that the guest actor and actress hate each other. This play within a play is set in a radio station studio. This is a farcical, wacky comedy about the shenanigans, backstage drama, and on-air screw-ups, of the cast and crew of a small-town radio station, where everything goes a little KRAZY. A madcap whodonnit radio farce about a missing “masterpiece” where everyone is a possible culprit.
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