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How to Write a Play

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Posted by Mark Sinclair, 26 May 2011, 10:26    Permalink    Comments (3)

As part of the Angle Theatre's campaign to find new playwriting talent, Pentagram's London studio has produced a short film offering advice on how to write for the stage...

Be Discovered 2011 is Angle's competition to find new writers. Its You Can Write a Play campaign aims to promote the initiative and show how good writing can come from simply observing and recording the world around you.

The campaign was created by Naresh Ramchandani and John Rushworth at Pentagram in London and illustrated by artists Huntley Muir. The animation is by Tom Baker and the film is scored by Graeme Miller (with sound mixed by WAM London). Additional dialogue for the film was also written by Shamser Sinha, one of the writers Angle discovered and worked with in 2009.

More on Angle's Be Discovered 2001 at angletheatre.co.uk/discovered.

 

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3 Comments

Is one to presume that it is a prerequisite to speak in the manner of a London-centric 'Epsilon semi-Moron', and have an exceedingly tenuous grasp of the English language? Or any language for that matter...

If so, it's liiiike well sick init.
Curator
2011-05-26 11:50:39


Lovely film - very inspiring. I have a play idea that I am now going to write, so Angle watch out!
Tom
2011-05-26 15:16:34


Shakespeare will be turning in his grave.
turd
2011-06-02 08:54:04


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