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Posted: Sun Jul 27th, 2008 09:34 pm |
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A few weeks back I did a search for Playwrights and Playwriting and came across this site. I’ve been reading all the sections and the various comments, looking at the bios and checking out some of the work and actually wanted more. Hence, I decided to take the leap and join.
I was particularly interested in what the group had to say about synopses as I face the task of writing several. I read the comments.
A quick overview: wrote and directed the feature film Marrakech. You can check it out at http://www.BandanaEntertainment.com. There are location shots, character descriptions, etc. You might find the director’s statement on page four of the Press Package (in Red) interesting. A clip can be seen by clicking on the IndieFlix link under Now Available on DVD. I’ve written 12 screenplays and have seven collections of poetry in the great out there. A novel and a Selected Poems should be forthcoming this year. For some strange reason, last year I jumped into writing plays. Written six since mid-December. This past April my Aztec Daughter was performed in Pennsylvania. I need to market my plays. Currently traveling in Mexico, writing plays and working on a second novel.
Really enjoyed Tennessee Williams Notebooks, Edited by Margaret Bradham Thornton. It’s hefty at 800 plus pages. On the recto page would be his journal entry and on the verso would be details about what he mentioned on the recto. If he mentioned a writer or friend or playwright that person's brief bio would be on the verso along with photos. I enjoyed reading about his time in St. Louis and Washington Univ. (as I grew up in St. Louis and went to undergrad at WU) and his experience at the Univ of Iowa -- where I also went to school.) I found it engaging how he would harvest portions of a one-act (and sometimes more than one play) and how that would eventually evolve into a full length play. I’ve used a poem as a springboard into a play.
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 03:20 pm |
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Welcome, Bandana.
Looking forward knowing you and your work better. I love using a piece of poetry to spring board into a play.
I've heard them say, whoever they are, that poets make good playwrights because both genres require a kind of meter. Less obscure in poetry. It's there, in a play, just no real definition, just a sense.
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Posted: Mon Jul 28th, 2008 09:07 pm |
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Thanks, Paddy,
A poem with its title can lead you into the material or serve to set up a juxtaposition to the thesis of the poem / play creating conflict. Then there are the intro elements, the friction or conflict, and the resolution -- all very similar to a play. Or, you can take the essence of the poem and utilize that as your dramatic vehicle, breaking it into components for dramatic effect.
I have a few other poems I may utilize in this fashion. I like harvesting the core of a poem and transforming it into another genre.
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