CRWR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lighting Designer, Fourth Wall, Proscenium
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Various styles of theatre musical theatre experimental threader improv theatre clowning/mask movement based collective creation we"re going to focus on text based scripts written by a single author. Pretense there are real, live people in front of you who are pretending . How to format your written script unlike screenplays, the guidelines for formatting a play are far less rigid however, the information in the script must still be clear. Sets, props, costumes at the risk of frustrating the costume designer, be careful not to over-script. Set description stage plays often open with a set description or at least indicate time and place i. e. a country road: a tree. Evening from waiting for godot a stage designer usually doesn"t like lengthy set descriptions leave room for artistic freedom full-length plays usually have more detailed set descriptions while one-act plays tend to have less.