Choose your path -
are you a playwright?
or are you a director?

Senior first semester final: Playwright or Director?

This is one of your choice. Are you a playwright or a director? To accomplish either task - please follow the guidelines below:
Requirements for the Playwright:
  • Choose a short story that you have read in an English class. It should be something that spoke to you as an artist, something that you have a distinct vision of what it would look like on the stage. When you read the story, did images of the scene come easily to you?
  • Write a NEW ten-minute play. Something different from what you wrote for the assignment.
    • The play must be an adaptation of a short story you have read in an English class here at Beacon.
    • Follow the guidelines set down in the Playwriting assignment . Look to reconstruct the plot visually and orally. The story must be told in such a way that the past and future goals of the characters are explained thoroughly through conversation. Any dialog in the story MUST be used, but you can add dialog to further the exposition.
    • You may not use a narrator. Everything that happens in the story must be expressed through the presence of the characters. The stage directions, setting, and dialog will define the story for the audience.
Requirements for the Director:
  • Choose one of the Ten minute plays that you DID NOT choose for your summer project (remember you were supposed to read three).
  • Develop a plan of how you would direct this play. Use what you've learned about the directorial process to create a guidebook for your vision of this play.
    • Include vision statement
    • Dramaturgy of the play (research of the author and the intent for this show)
    • Run an audition for a scene from the play
    • Cast and direct a short scene from your play
    • During the directing process, take notes on the progress for your scene including a readthrough of the entire play, rehearsal notes (ten rehearsals).
    • Showcase the scene to the class on the day of the final and submit your book.