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'. . . the trouble is, show business peddles the sentimental piety that you can always get over your problems. To go to the theatre and be told, No, there are certain problems which you cannot get over -- grief, separation, loss, aging, the need to part from people you love -- to go to a play where these things are faced seems to me to be a bracing way to spend an evening, not a depressing one.'

-- David Hare

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CONTENT OF PLAYS
- Voice: Your Sound as a Playwright
- Subjects
  - Truth in The Theatre
    - Docudramas
  - Using Other Writers' Work
    - Adaptations of Novels
    - Making Adaptations of Older Plays
    - Using Other People's Lives
    - Using Popular Songs
      - Permissions for Using Popular Songs
- Themes
  - Examples of Contemporary Themes
    - Authorial Spokespersons
- Character Development
  - What's Modern in Modern Drama [Technically]
    - Character Name Meanings
      - Names from Recent Plays
  - Point of View
  - Language, Foul & Otherwise
    - Clichés: The Great Ear Closers
    - Writing Dialogue with Accents
- Subtext for Characters
  - Facetious but Effective Example
    - Scene with All Subtext Spoken
      - Spoken Subtext Marked for Editing
        
        Subtext Where It Belongs
  - Subtext in 'night, Mother
    - Dramatic Irony
  - No-Subtext Plays
    - Suspense Plots As Substitute
- Conflict
  - Triangular Conflict Problems
- Settings: Visual Subtext
- Titles
  - Descriptive Titles
  - Metaphoric Titles
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