Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops: Adapting Current Events, Social Issues, Life Stories, News & Histories (Paperback)

~ Anne Hart (Author)
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Here’s a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages. Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors.

Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing skits, plays, and monologues based on the significant events and experiences from lives of people. Learn to write skits, plays and monologues based on historical events and personalities.

What you’ll get out of this book and the exercises of writing one-act plays for teenage actors and audiences of all-ages audience, are improved skills in adapting all types of social issues, current events, or life experience to 45-minute one-act plays, skits, or monologues for teenage or older adult drama workshops.

How do you write plays and skits from life stories, current events, social issues, or history? Are you looking for the appropriate 45-minute, one-act play for high-school students or other teenagers, for community center drama workshops, or even for home school projects or for events and celebrations?

Are you seeking one-act plays for older adults drama workshops? Use personal or biographical experiences as examples when you write your skit or play.

If you want a really original play, write, revise, and adapt your own plays, skits, and monologues. Here’s how to do it.

About the Author

Anne Hart is the author of 50 published books and writes extensively for a variety of magazines on creativity enhancement, playwriting, and family history journalism.

Product Details

• Paperback: 297 pages
• Publisher: ASJA Press (March 14, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595345972
• ISBN-13: 978-0595345977
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #638,971 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Enough Padding To Stuff A Bed, January 14, 2006

By	Mark Blickley "Playwright/Teacher" (New York City) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm teaching a playwriting workshop where I will be exclusively using the one-act form for the first time. I saw this title and thought it should be helpful, so I ordered a copy from the print on demand publisher. This book is a terrible workshop resource. Out of 288 pages, two-thirds of the book are strictly play scripts and there's a 31 page Appendix that even includes "1,004 Action Verbs for Communicators" that begins with the word Abated and ends with Zoned. Also Appendix D which is six pages of other books published by Anne Hart. Totally ridiculous. Out of the sixty pages she did write, many are concerned with marketing your script, including animation. Most of her writing has no relevance at all for a playwriting workshop. It doesn't help me as a teacher of one-act playwriting to know that many colleges now offer animation courses.

This book about writing short plays has Chapter Two offering a two paragraph page giving platitudes about writing short plays and then proceeds to give the reader a 100 page full length play. Why? So the reader can simply turn it into a 45 minute play by keeping "...the characters a few as possible, usually about 5 characters." In that two paragraph explanation for filling up a 288 page book with 100 pages of script, she also says one can turn this full length play into a monologue.

I can go on but I'm too upset at the misrepresentation of what this book is supposed to contain. I can understand why it's published on iUniverse where you can't get a refund on a product you're unable to peruse before purchasing. Save your $20 and buy a good anthology of one-acts instead. Anne Hart, you should be ashamed of yourself.