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Jeffrey Sweet Playwriting Tips !!

Up your playwriting skills or remind yourself of writing tools you may have forgotten!  These short pieces will bring craft to your fingertips.

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001 – Lehman Engel, Viola Spolin and Paul Sills

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jte-6VTS4MI&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

 

002 – Playwriting is Not a Literary Activity 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNIQCSMY5tI&t=1s&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

 

003 – The Present Tense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBQzx1kugA&t=68s&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

 

004 – What’s Hiding in the Jungle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp2K2Vqdv68&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

 

005 – The Power of the Unspoken Word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLBa8BS2UKk&t=93s&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

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006 – Negotiating over an Object

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrkclptuYSk&t=12s&ab_channel=JeffreySweet

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007 – The Transformation of an Object

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF7V_Dy9004

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008 – Other Negotiations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_7ICJTrHU

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009 – Write What You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ieon3kyMg

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010 – Event Structured Plays and Movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YpCCxP6ZM

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011 – Character Structure

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJm5QhYlFfM

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012 – Professional vs. Personal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncu80OqJUI

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013 – Appetite vs. Responsibility

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFMzMnxhvw

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014 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe and Exposition?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071SctIt31k

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