What is Dialogue in Plays?
“STEVE CAVERNO: Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village, here to talk to you today about dialogue. Now, we’re going to talk about dialogue. This is the primary method of conveying the plot of the play to the audience. In plays, people talk and they talk a lot. And what we’re going to talk about today is how they talk. Dialogue can have many different–there are many different ways it is delivered. Dialogue in plays is typically written as Amy: Hi, Joe! And then, Joe: What’s up Amy? So–then we just have the person’s name on the line and then the line, aim line, aim line. We’re going through this more on formatting as well of how you want a lot of space on your script. But, for the moment, we’ll look at dialogue. So, one person says something and then another person replies and this continues. And in between the dialogue, you might have some action that happens, you might have a pause that happens perhaps, but the dialogue occurs and then the dialogue continues. This is how the actors
