![]() Also, smaller animals such as dik-dik and warthogs. Let me assure you, Emma, we hunt and eat impala, Thomson’s gazelle and common wildebeest. AGNES and ANNIE sit across from THEM reading THEIR book on Australia.) The PUPPIES are rolling around, play fighting, in the grass as puppies do. MOSEYALONG are sitting together on the grass. which you see below:Īt Rise: A clearing in the fabled forest. I prefer the format used by (my publisher) Samuel French, Inc. Be certain to leave plenty of white space for the actors/director’s written notes. There are no extra line-spaces between blocking and dialogue except if there is a ‘beat’ when the same character pauses. Scene breaks should be on the next (right) page. Before dialogue, Characters’ names are all in CAPS with a period. Character’s names are all in CAPS, centered, and not italicized. Line spacing is 1.15 instead of single-spaced. Blocking direction is indented, italicized and in parentheses. I find this very distracting but I am certain it has to do with production costs and keeping the page count down. It is jumbled into dialogue even though it does not pertain to that particular character’s ‘action’. (From my published children’s play, “Emma and the Aardvarks”© ) The formatting of the Dramatist Play Service (publishers) do use parentheses when formatting the blocking. What if the director has a different vision for casting?ĬAST OF CHARACTERS (Place on the 3rd or 4th page after title, playwright’s name, Copyright notices.etc.) What if they don’t have an eighty-year old, male who can act? Make-up can only go so far! Ethnicity is rarely listed but there are exceptions. ![]() I know from experience that a director wants to have this information immediately when choosing a play. List of Characters: I noticed that in the Dramatists Play Service scripts, they do not list the ages of the characters. Below is a sample of the correct formatting. ![]() It’s important to know that the correct way to format a stage play for submitting (to a publisher, agent or theatre) is very similar to the format used when publishing it. Now that the traditional publishers have turned you down, file away that rejection letter, soothe your fragile writer’s ego with a hot cup of tea, some chocolate, or whatever and self-publish your play.
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