Teaching Playwriting in Schools - Center Stage
Teaching Playwriting in Schools - Center Stage
Teaching Playwriting in Schools - Center Stage
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The Neutral Play<br />
Write on the board four l<strong>in</strong>es of dialogue that could be open to a variety of <strong>in</strong>terpretations. For<br />
example:<br />
A<br />
Did you br<strong>in</strong>g it?<br />
B<br />
Why?<br />
A<br />
Don’t you ever listen to me?<br />
B<br />
Of course I do.<br />
Tell your students to cont<strong>in</strong>ue writ<strong>in</strong>g the dialogue between these two characters after each<br />
privately decides who the characters are, what “it” is, and where they are talk<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
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