Activity 3 — Analyzing and Revising

Teacher's Notes

Copy this format and insert your play into the form:

TITLE (Your title)

Time: (What time is it when your play starts?)
Place: (Where are your characters when the play starts?)
At Curtain Rise: (What action is going on when your play starts?)

1st character : (Write your first line of dialog here.)

2nd character: (Response to the first character's comments.)

Milo: So what? Go away and bug someone else!

(Clem starts to cry and rolls over to a corner.)

Clem: Waaaaa! Waaaaa! Waaaaa! WAAAAAAAAA!

(Milo, disturbed, looks up from his mini computer.)

Milo: Be quiet or I'll . . .

Write one monologue as a new device for your play. A playwright (that's what you are now!) uses the monologue to allow his or her audience to overhear what a character is thinking or to tell what happened or is going to happen.

Example of a monologue:

Clem: But you told me to go away. You hurt my feelings. I don't like to cry, 'cause when I cry I get all rusted up inside. My father rusted up and never got fixed! My mother was very sad and never ticked right after that. I don't want to end up rusted up in some tiny box in a tiny room in Alaska!

1. Do the characters actually "talk" to one another? If not how could they?
2. Does each have his or her own point of view? What is said in the play to support this? If character doesn't, what is one thing he or she could say that would express a point of view?
3. What is the conflict? Was it resolved?
4. How did the story make you feel?
5. Was the entire story told? Why or why not?

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