This is a complete step-by-step program on writing and selling the entertaining full-length plays that publishers and performers in the lucrative school market are looking for-primarily three-act comedies for high schools and junior high schools around the country. Topics covered include: how to turn an idea into a successful ready-to-be-produced play; staging a play; character creation; plotting and dialog; manuscript format and submission; and actual guidelines from publishers of plays for schools and amateur theatre
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Produce a Play with Frank Priore!,
This review is from: Getting Your Acts Together: An Illustrated, Comprehensive Step-By-Step Guide to Writing, Publishing, and Selling Plays to the School Market. Complete With Actual Publishers guide (Paperback)
Want to write a play? Here's how! Popular playwright Frank Priore gives you a guide to writing, publishing, and selling plays to schools. His new book, Getting Your Acts together, tells you everything you need to know to write a play of your own. Priore wrote, directed, produced, and acted in plays for more than thirty years. His plays are popular in schools across america. He lives in College Point, New York, and his "idea of heaven is sitting at the picnic table in his backyard and tapping out the dialog of a new play on the keys of his laptop computer while puffing on an eight inch, 54-ring, handrolled, imported cigar." He enjoys his work, and fifty of his plays have been published for audiences who appreciate his talent. "The goal of this book is to help you to create the kind of bright, witty, easy-to-produce plays that will startt those royalty checks parading to your mail drop," Priore writes. Indeed, when you read his directions, you understand how easy it can be. "Act One: Get your hero up a tree," he tells us. You want your audience to wonder how your hero got up in the tree and how he will get down. You want to captivate your audience in the first act. Once you captivated your audience in Act One, you continue to captivate in Act Two and Act three. You develop your characters and plot in subsequent scenes. "Picture the characters on your set, drop the problem in their laps, and see what develops," the author advises. Beg, borrow, or buy a copy of Frank Priore's book if you want to write a play. he succeeds in telling you everything you need toknow about writing, directing, and producing plays that will be popular and profitable. ###
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