WHAT WE DO
ScriptWorks is playwright development and service organization that was founded to:
- Create a home for dramatic writers that stimulates imagination
- Develop new dramatic works to their fullest potential and feed them into the local and national markets
- Produce and encourage the production of new work that lends dignity to the playwright’s vision
- Network and enhance the visibility of the diverse community of playwrights in the Central Texas area
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Wrighting Plays: Strategies for Revising Scripts
A Dramatis Personae Workshop with Ramón Esquivel
Monday, March 30th, 7:00 -8:30 PM CST
Admission: $15-$35 CLAIM YOUR SEAT
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The heart of playwriting is the revising process, when a playwright works and reworks dialogue, stage directions, and beats to refine and sharpen moments of drama. Yet most writing workshops and books focus only on generating story ideas and writing a first draft, leaving writers on their own for the most important, and enjoyable, part of creating new work. In this workshop for writers of all experience levels, playwright Ramón Esquivel will share his strategies and approaches for revising plays for second and third drafts and beyond. How do we distinguish characters and their dialogue? How can structure help us problem solve? When do we break from structure? How and why do we edit and cut? To practice these strategies, workshop participants are encouraged to bring a few pages of dialogue from their own works in progress, or they can work from some sample dialogues that will be provided.
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