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MO-Thespians Playwrighting Program
Three Components
OPlaywrighting
OStage Management
OActing
PlaywrightingO DEVELOPMENT. The opportunity to work one-
on-one with a Master Playwright who will help you revise and polish your script.
O WORKSHOP. Rehearsal time with the Master Playwright, director and a cast of student actors, to realize your creative vision.
O PERFORMANCE. A staged reading of your play for an audience of hundreds of your fellow students.
O SELECTION. ONE student script will be chosen to receive professional coaching and staged reading at the 2013 Missouri State Thespian Festival.
PlaywrightingO Scripts must be between 10-20 pages in standard
format O Playwright Application and Script are to be
submitted via email as Microsoft Word attachment to [email protected]
O No more than two scripts per school may be submitted
O Script content must be appropriate for school—extreme profanity and questionable content could result in disqualification .
O Scripts MUST be submitted by NOVEMBER 15TH. O NO LATE SCRIPTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
PlaywrightingO A Reading Committee, made up of theatre go-ers,
theatre teachers, playwrights and professionals will read and review all of the submitted scripts using a grading rubric (see attached).
O The ONE script that has the highest scores from the majority of the Reading Committee will be selected. You will be notified via email whether or not you were the selected playwright by December 1st.O If selected, you will work from December 1st
through the time of conference with the Master Playwright on making edits and revisions of your script.
STANDARD FORMATWe are asking for all plays to be submitted in the same format so that we can accurately compare
length. This is “standard format,” and it’s what most professional playwrights use to present their
work cleanly.
First page: Center the title of the play in the middle of the page, with ‘by’ and the
author’s name below it. Center the author’s contact information (school, school address, author’s cell
phone number and author’s email address) at the bottom of the page.
My Brother and His Dog 1
(all pages numbered in top right hand corner)
(in the center of the page)My Brother and His Dog
By Mortimer Fireside
(at the bottom of the page)Hazelton High School
1234 South OnmystreetAnywere, MO 12345
(314)[email protected]
Second page: Left justify a character list (you can give a brief description of each, not
more than one line), the setting and the time. Use CHARACTERS, PLACE and TIME as headers.
Second page example:
My Brother and His Dog 2
CHARACTERS
BOB SMITH, 40’s, high school science teacher in shabby clothes
PATTY SMITH, 25, his second wife
PLACE
The Germantown High School Science Lab
TIME
The present. Late Friday afternoon, after school.
Dialogue pages: Character names are in ALL CAPS in stage directions and dialogue headers (but not in actual dialogue); dialogue headers are tabbed over (not centered). Stage directions are in parentheses and at the same tab as the dialogue headers. Dialogue stars at the left margin. EVERY PAGE MUST BE NUMBERED. Dialogue page examples:
My Brother and His Dog 3
(A messy science lab in a small-town high school. BOB SMITH is tidying up the day’s experiments, washing beakers, etc. His wife PATTY enters)
BOB I’m surprised you’re here.
PATTY (shrugs)
I don’t know why you would be—I’ve got as much right to be here as you have.
BOB Come on, Patty. We both know it’s over.
(PATTY grabs a beaker and smashes it to the floor) PATTY
I will never be able to create anything. I have been trying and trying and nothing ever comes out the way I want it to.
BOB (BOB slowly walks to PATTY and puts his hand on her shoulder and sighs)
Patty, you can’t blame yourself. It’s not your fault. You have set such high expectations for yourself. You can’t possibly believe that you can create a dog by combining Doritos and Malt Balls. It. Just. Doesn’t. work!
PATTY But if those are your favorite foods, and I am trying to make you a dog, why wouldn’t it work. You want to have things in common.
BOB I think you are taking this “Man’s Best Friend” thing a little too far. I like driving my car on back roads and twiddling my thumbs when I am bored… Dogs DON’T HAVE THUMBS.
PATTY They could if I can get my calculations right.
BOB (as he walks out of the room)
The day you create a dog from nothing and it has thumbs… I promise I will take care of that dog forever… and it WILL be my best friend… (to himself) and my ticket to the bank… (laughs hysterically)
Stage Manageme
ntO We need a student stage manager
for each play who will O film auditionsO introduce the play and the authorO read descriptions and stage directionsO help with blocking of the playO upervise set-up and strike any chairs,
tables or props used.
Stage Manageme
ntO ON THURSDAY: Selected Stage Managers will be responsible for
running one Workshop Session (1, 2 or 3 depending on the schedule for Page-to-Stage AuditionsO You will film each students audition during your specific
workshop time with a flip camera.O You will collect each students audition application information
during your specific workshop time
O ON THURSDAY NIGHT: You will be a part of the casting viewing during Thursday Late Night Activities and aide in the casting process.
O ON FRIDAY: You will attend your Playwrights designated Workshop
Session (4, 5 or 6) and aide in the rehearsal process with the cast.
O ON SATURDAY: You will be responsible for organizing the cast, setting up any props/chairs/tables and assisting the Playwright.
ActingO FOR AUDITIONS—will be THURSDAY
during the designated Workshop Sessions (please see the program at conference for the specific Audition Location.)
O You will need to prepare a 1-minute monologue OR story to be video-taped by the selected Stage Managers during one of the aforementioned times on Thursday.
ActingO ON THURSDAY: you will perform your prepared 1-
mintue monologue or story during the Audition time.
O ON THURSDAY NIGHT: You will be notified by midnight (curfew) on Thursday Evening if you were cast in one of the play to be performed at conference
O ON FRIDAY: You will attend your Playwrights
designated Workshop Session and block and rehearse your specific play.
O ON SATURDAY: You will be performing the script twice.
PerformanceO On SATURDAY, the selected play will
be performed as a dramatic reading (with limited blocking and scenery)—there will be two performances.
O There will be a “talk-back” with the Playwright, Actors and the Master PlaywrightO You can ask questions
ScheduleO We will not know the specific schedule for
conference until Registration is Complete!O Could be a SPLIT schedule… will plan
accordingly with the Playwrights/Stage Managers to make sure you are on the same schedule.
Questions???
?
Send Questions, Scripts &
Applications to:
www.MSTPagetoStage.com
