Worksheet 10

Play Considerations

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Below you will find some questions to consider while you are creating your play.  Look the questions over once before you get started and refer to them often, answering them as you go along.

1.      Does your play have a beginning, a middle, and an end?

 

2.      Does the beginning of the play include information about the time and location of the story?  This will help your audience understand what the play will be about.

 

 

3.      Does the middle part of your play have some rising action?  The rising action is a series of events or obstacles that happen to the characters that they have to deal with before the end of the play.  The rising action makes your play more interesting for your audience.

 

4.      Does your play have a climax?  The climax is the most suspenseful or exciting part and usually occurs near the end of the play.

 

5.      Does your story have some funny parts?  Remember your audience likes to laugh.

 

6.      Is the Statue of Liberty a character in your play?  If so, what kind of person do you think she would be? 

 

7.       Will you put the statue in a funny or unexpected situation?  What will it be?

 

8.      Will other artworks ?come to life? in your play?  Which ones?

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