One of our assignments in Plays and Playwrights is to write a Major Dramatic Curve for an original play – – not the whole of the play – but simply an outline or structure FOR a play. The plans for this play SOUND quite simple but prove to be more difficult. The first problem that the students run into is that they want to introduce car chases, shootouts, clever escapes from prisons, superheroes doing their magic and all sorts of techno bells and whistles to their play. I do all I can to validate that they DO have a valid story – BUT it is a story that is best saved for the movies. Read more