Scene Breakdown Page

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'In the LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC, the claustrophobia of the housing development is absolutely crucial to the play being fully realized. The fact that what you see out the window are countless windows like the one you're looking through is very important to creating the world of the play.'

-- Donald Margulies

A Scene Breakdown Page may be useful information if your play is structured in a series of formal Scenes in changing locations and time periods. It's also a good way to make a complicated Time Structure clear to a reader. But if you have fewer than 6 Scenes, it works as well to list them under each Act on the Setting & Time Page.

And it's a clear way to indicate what kind of demands you're really putting on the Scene and Lighting Designers. If what you're doing with design is out of the ordinary, it's also a good idea to add a brief statement about this to your description on the Setting & Time page.

Here's one way of doing it . . .

Scene Breakdown Example

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