A few reminders of questions/ideas that came up in Allison's workshop, that could be useful to you all in your plays:
1) What questions DO YOU WANT your audience to be asking? A lot of times, we'll try to create mystery in our plays...make sure that you're leaving ambiguous what you want to leave ambiguous, and making everything else clear, so that your audience isn't distracted by other questions.
2) How can you TAKE THE PLAY TO THE STORY? How can you show the most exciting moments, the moment when life changes, onstage? SHOW US your characters struggle, show us their "eureka!" moments. Show us what they want, let us see them try to get it and fail, then show us their triumph (or not).
3) What VESTED INTEREST does each character have in the outcome of the story? How can you make sure that the central conflict affects EVERYONE onstage? Give your characters emotional stakes.
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