Page Numbers
Page numbers are essential for estimating the running time of a script as well as checking the relative balance in the length of acts.
I-1
ACT I
SCENE 1
- Numbering begins with the first page of dialogue.
- Numbers are always in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
- Each act is numbered consecutively through the end of an Act:
I-1 I-2 I-3
- The numbering for Act II begins again from scratch:
II-1 II-2 II-3
- Plays structured in short formal scenes without Act designations are numbered consecutively with numerals only. If Act designations are also used -- most playwrights do it this way -- then follow the numbering system for plays in Acts.
- Preliminary pages, if numbered at all, are done with lower case Roman numerals:
i ii iii iv
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