Inspiration for Play Making

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STEVE CAVERNO: Hi. My name is Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'll be talking to you about playwriting basics. Now, we'll talk about inspiration. How do you find inspiration for writing a play? Well, we already went over life experience, how Eugene O'Neil used his own life experiences to work with making a play, making a tragic play. Also, there's the news such as "The Laramie Project" by Moises Kaufman. In this play, it takes the murder of the gay men in Wyoming. And the playwrights went to Wyoming, interviewed 400 people, and wrote a play about that experience. And they took all these different accounts of that incident and they fashioned it into a play. There are also a lot of successful plays that feature other characters from better known works such Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". This play takes minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet and makes them the main characters of the play in a very comedic way. They're bumbling idiots that have all these misadventures during the course of the play Hamlet and finally, they end up dead. And so, these are ways in which you can use different elements of the world around you, your own life experience, some of the things you might hear on the news and other works of fiction to create your own creative output.

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