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Inside guide playwriting 1

THE INSIDE GUIDE TO PLAY WRITING GUIDE Guide compiled by Euan Borland Photography Credits Ben Carpenter Abby Dunlavy Rachel Hague Manuel Harlan Sarah Keeling Helen Murray Richard Saker Naomi Woddis EDUCATION COMMUNITY Director of Education Community Hannah Fosker Education Manager Euan Borland Young Person ? s Programme Manager Naomi McKenna Lawson Education Community Coordinator Kate Lawrence-Lunniss Education Community Intern Annys Whyatt With generous thanks to Old Vic sta ? and associates If you would like to learn more about our education programmes please contact education oldvictheatre com Back to Contents page CONTENTS Introduction by Hannah Khalil Playwriting exercises by Sonia Jalaly Artist pro ?le Isabel Hague Artist pro ?le Temi Wilkey What your script should look like Artist pro ?le Sabrina Mahfouz Artist pro ?le Vinay Patel Further reading watching listening Glossary of terms Opportunities next steps INTRODUCTION BY HANNAH KHALIL PHOTO RICHARD SAKER At what point can you call yourself a writer Is it about how many words you write a day Or if you ? ve ?nished writing that play Or does it have to have been produced Or is it about if you ? ve earned any money from writing yet Or the number of plays you ? ve written Or if you ? ve won a prize These are just some of the questions that used to make me feel rubbish about myself and whether or not I could should write when I started out My advice now after lots of years of writing is none of these questions matter All that matters is if you want to write then you must write and if you fancy giving it a go but you ? re unsure ?? go on try on a date He was nice but I wasn ? t interested This someone told me if I kept turning down o ?ers of dates from nice blokes I ? d end up old and alone I was really angry But I couldn ? t ?nd the words or the con ?dence to argue with her So I sat down and wrote a little play And that helped me a lot I mention this because writing for me has become what that ?rst play was a way to try and understand the world and other human beings and why they do the things they do A way to try and understand how I feel about things that happen to me and people I love and come to terms with it A kind of therapy I suppose Which makes it sound like my plays are probably really boring but I hope they ? re not And if they ? re not it ? s because I really think hard about why something I ? m writing is a play ?? as opposed to a short story or a ?lm or a novel or something else I ? m a playwright my name ? s Hannah Khalil and I ? m going to talk a little bit here