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Dramatic performance

Research the whole play

Memory

Do the research

Learn other characters lines

Practice with props

Voice

Projection

Control

Positioning

Levels

Accents

Movement

Timing

Talking about the play character or scene

Writing a play script

Experience a play

KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid

Plot

Get right into it straightaway

Characters

Action

Comedy

Typical format

Rewriting scripts

Experience a play

If you need to write a script, go to see a play at your local community theatre hall. If you go there knowing that you have to write a short play, you’ll pick up lots of useful things that will help when you write your script.

See what special effects (if any) are used, and think about why they and not more complicated effects were chosen. Have a look at how many characters there are in the play (often fewer than you’d expect) and when they’re on or off stage. Check out how the actors move relative to each other on stage, and how much they move.

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