PPT-Playwriting 101

The Plays the Thing The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic poet thats us had the power and the duty to teach and please Short Plays A good tenminute play is not a sketch or an extended gag but rather a . CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A NOTE TO TEACHERS............................................................................................... 2 STRUCTURE SUGGESTIONS........................................ What does a playwright do?. The playwright provides the point of origin for nearly every play production...the script.. More and more today, the role of the playwright is to write the play and then to disappear. What does a playwright do?. The playwright provides the point of origin for nearly every play production...the script.. More and more today, the role of the playwright is to write the play and then to disappear. “After nourishment, shelter, and companionship; stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman. Vocabulary. Plot: the arrangement of the incidents that take place in a play..