Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days

by Tony Craze

A # 1. US & UK Best Seller WorkbookThe work of award winning writer Tony Craze has been described as ' . . . assured, enthralling, daring, and with an emotional charge powerful enough to send one reeling . . .'He has now subsumed a thousand days and nights delivering theater writing workshops into Write a Theatre Script in 25 Days (& 10 Hours). The workbook takes an aspiring writer through a step by step process from initial idea to finished first draft. There's no theorizing about writing, no worthy exercising. The writer simply follows through the cumulative units and in 25 days (& 10 hours) there on the desk sits the draft.The process set down here is the first published full theater scripting process and has been delivered in a variety of contexts - from professional writer programs, and open access courses, to on line programs. Without exception, students using the process produce scripts that reach the desks of literary managers and nine times out of ten are marked for development.

169 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 27, 2012

Reviews

[Roger Alderman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read, but was full of collected previous data from other titles.

[David Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book I read to research this post was Writer a Theatre Script In 25 Days and 10 Hours by Tony Craze which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This book takes you through 25 steps the last 3 of which are writing your first draft of a one scene play and the 10 hours is how long it will take to write the first draft so the total amount of time is a lot longer. Normally plays only have 1 or 2 scenes to keep costs of production down. A lot of this book could be applied to writing a fiction book. Essentially you start by writing anything that comes to mind called free form writing. You then move onto developing characters and write several scenes and looking at writing what predated these scenes. You try and come up with a title based on the theme of the play. The author of this book produced a course for the Arts Council in Britain for budding playwrights that this book is based on. I think you probably could produce a reasonable play without reading the book and just following what I've outlined. If you come to a sticking point in the play he recommends working on another part of the play and coming back to it later. Whatever you do don't just think I can't do it and give up. As you work on the play you will find you need to come back to developing the characters and writing what scenes predate the play several times. You also need to write a synopsis of the play prior to actually writing it. The author does say only read the book if you are actually going to read through the exercises and write a play and I just read it to review it but might come back to it and try and write a play. There is very little writing on each page which is a bit of a shame. I think in terms of writing a play his system would work and find this book very interesting.