What is Unique about Playwriting?
“STEVE CAVERNO: Hi. My name is Steve Caverno on behalf of Expert Village, and today I’ll be talking to you about playwriting basics. In this segment, we’ll be looking at how playwriting differs from other mediums of storytelling. For this exercise, we’ll take the same story and tell it in three different ways. Jack and Cathy were friends in high school. Jack always had a thing for Cathy, but he never really told her. One summer, Cathy was going away for the summer to a French Studies program in France, and Jack was her ride to the airport. This story will recount their relationship. First, we’ll tell it in a novel, prose format. In this format, we get insights as to Jack’s thought process, and everything is told through words. Cathy stepped out of the bookstore and into the stark light of day. Jack set down his copy of Great Expectations on the wrought iron table, spellbound by the way that her skin so glistened the same way it had when she boarded the plane for France ten years ago. N
