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This page is an under constitution and will be filled with general ideas to help you decide on the style and setting to write a play on your topic.
Styles:
- Characters talking
- Monologue of character direct to audience
- Puppet play
- Mime synced to music dynamics to tell an emotional story
- External Voice over describing actions, like documentary
- Commentator describing actions, like sports commentary
- Conscience voice over of what character is thinking
- Twists:
- was all a dream. Use sparingly. Good for showing a 'what if' alternate story line that differs from what we know actually historically happened.
- mislead the audience. Have a setting different to the actual story, but works as an analogy - and have an obvious "Ah-Ha" moment towards the end which reveals the mirrored story and makes people realize what everything actually represented in what they just saw. EG. A kid dropped off on a plane by the dad and an air hostess looking after them and in the end are PPUUSSHHEDD our the door - and they were actually in a womb - not a plane!
- What if things were/happened differently to a well known situation/story?
- Revealing/hiding words/letters as story unfolds
- Have same character/concept cross into multiple plays over the year (eg Fathers day and Mothers day)
Settings:
- Job interview
- Councilor session
- Office cubical
- Desert island, Jungle
- Car, Ship, Train, Plane, Bus, Submarine, Spaceship
- Alien planet
- Auction
- Womb
- Jail cell
- Wedding, Funeral
- Roller coaster
- Church
Situations:
- Lost
- Worried
- Reminiscing
- Doing the opposite