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Anthony Clarvoe: Training for the Marathon: Writing a Successful Full-Length Play
A 10-WEEK PLAYWRITING CLASS WITH ANTHONY CLARVOE
Training for the Marathon
Or, Full Tilt to the Finish Line, Writing a Successful Full-length Play
Anthony Clarvoe , a 25 year veteran playwright who has won commissions, awards, and multiple productions for full-length plays ranging from two-handers to big-cast epics. Over ten weeks, he will share methods and techniques he has learned and mastered that will enable you to carry your project through to its conclusion, and give you the perspective to know when you're done. You'll participate in exercises to help you past the challenges at each stage of writing (first draft, rewriting and honing the structure). You'll learn disciplines and habits of mind that will help you discern how to maintain the spine of your play, and keep you going through the months and years of a writing life. You'll gain insights into what goes into transforming your most intimate thoughts, feelings, and convictions into a resonant public event. You'll increase your stamina and raise your game through a class experience that is challenging, passionate, and down-to-earth.
In pursuit of the refined full-length play, the class will cover a number of these sample topics:
*How to think your play (and not just write your way into it).
*Genre is your friend, or When to ask world literature for directions.
*How to spot who your play's about and carry that forward.
*The image set: your play's DNA and how it replicates.
*Four levels of structure.
*To everything its arc.
*Fun with causality: amazing tricks your raw material can do.
*How your first act writes your last act and vice versa.
*The joys of rewriting.
*Act Four out of Five, or the Slough of Despond.
*Ways to end: the 11:00 number.
*Now that you're done, you can start: from script to production.
To read more about Anthony Clarvoe, please visit www.playwrightsfoundation.org
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LocationPlaywrights Foundation
1616 16th Street, Ste 350
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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