Writing and Staging : Adventure Plays

WRITING AND STAGING PLAYS
Adventure Plays

• How can you write an exciting adventure play?
  
• How can you transform a page-turning script into an edge-of-the-seat production?
  
• How can lighting, sound effects and even costume ramp up tension? 

Read this book to find out the answers to these questions and more. Each title in the Writing and Staging Plays series explains how to create different types of plays by following sample scripts through the writing and staging process. In Writing and Staging Adventure Plays, find out how to write an adventure play, from using short, snappy dialogue to create tension, through to using simple props and scenery to keep the audience absorbed in the action. Discover how practical exercises such as improvisation can help make situations even more exciting. Learn about how some notable examples of plays and their productions have created nail-biting experiences for audiences.