Writing the 10-Minute Play by Alterman, Glenn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments 1. Before We Get Started

Who This Book Was Written For Learning Playwriting from Many Sources How I Wrote My First Play Ten Ways to Get the Most out of This Book

2. What Is a Ten-Minute Play?

The Ten-Minute Play: A Definition When Did Ten-Minute Plays Begin? Why Write a Ten-Minute Play? Popularity of Ten-Minute Plays Basic Rules for All Ten-Minute Plays

3. Before Beginning Your Ten-Minute Play

Perking with an Idea Deciding When to Begin The Actor and the Playwright As an Actor, Do I Have the Skills Necessary to Create My Own Material? Fear of Writing Working Internally as an Actor and as a Writer Techniques for Dealing with Writer’s Block Freewriting Eleven Rules of Freewriting Benefits of Freewriting After You’ve Completed the Freewriting Session Clustering (or Webbing): Finding the Initial Core of Your Work How to Cluster Starting Your Play with an Outline Comparing Processes for Actors and Playwrights

4. Playwriting Basics

Aristotle’s Poetics Freytag’s Pyramid Freytag’s Five Dramatic Arcs

5. Script Format 6. Beginning Your Ten-Minute Play

How I Start My Ten-Minute Plays Starting a Play with an Idea, a Theme, or an Image

7. The Next Steps

Intention, Objective, and Action The Setting and Time The Best Way to Tell Your Story: The Play’s Structure Complications Arise Realizing and Developing the Story of the Play Actors Working on Their Plays Ending the First Draft Finding Your Title After the First Draft

8. Reading the First Draft

At What Point Should You Have Someone Else Read What You’ve Written? Selecting the Right Person to Read Your First Draft The First Reading of Your Play Cold Readings of Your Ten-Minute Play Should You Be an Actor in the First Readings of Your Ten-Minute Play? Listening to Feedback and Comments Not Allowing Others to Rewrite Your Play Back to Rewrites

9. Getting Your Play Out

E-mail Submissions Actors: Should You Be in the First Production of Your Play?

10. Interviews with Playwrights of Ten-Minute Plays

Jenny Lyn Bader Don Nigro Craig Pospisil Mark Harvey Levine Arlene Hutton Alex Broun Rich Orloff

11. Interviews with Producers of Ten-Minute Plays

Kate Snodgrass Alice Walker Seth Gordon

12. Interviews with Publishers of Ten-Minute Plays

Sarah Bernstein Geri Albrecht Lawrence Harbison

13. Three Successful Ten-Minute Plays

The Popcorn Sonata, Jenny Lyn Bader Discussion on Writing The Popcorn Sonata On the Edge, Craig Pospisil Creating On the Edge The Pain in the Poetry, Glenn Alterman Creating The Pain in the Poetry

14. Where to Submit Your Ten-Minute Play

Ten-Minute Play Festivals Publishers of Ten-Minute Plays

15. Observations about the Ten-Minute Play

Anastasia Traina, Playwright Scott C. Sickles, Artistic Director, WorkShop Theater Company, New York City Dirk Knef, Literary Advisor, After Folsom Festival (Berlin, Germany) and others Suzanne Bradbeer, Playwright Eduardo Arbo, Playwright, Barcelona Elaine Romero, Playwright

16. And in the End

Playwrights: Some Key Points to Remember Some Key Points for Actor/Playwrights

Selected Bibliography About the Author