Category: Playwriting

  • Shameless Self-Promotion Corner

    Hello gentle readers, You may not know that my play THE BASEMENT COMPANY was recently published in a collection of 21 One-Act Plays by those wonderful Canadians at OAPD, whom I’ve worked with for the last 15 or so years. I urge you to go over to Amazon.com and order this book on your Kindle…

  • Playwriting and the Scientific Method

    “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” — Albert Einstein Albert Einstein claimed that his famous theory of relativity came to him intuitively, and that music was his driving force. His parents started…

  • Three is an important number to dramatists: It denotes rudimentary story structure (beginning, middle, and end) It denotes the magic act (pledge, turn, and prestige) It is the simplest expression of imbalance and tension (being the smallest odd prime number) We call it the “Rule of Threes” — Anything presented in groups of three will…

  • Everything in our natural world runs on a cycle — day to night, life to death, clouds to rain, etc. In thermodynamics we observe that the universe doesn’t really create anything new; it merely recycles the energy that it has over and over again through a complex feedback system. The entirety of life is a…