🌞 How to Write a Play series

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You Can Write and Direct a Play for Your Students

Learn the benefits of writing a play specific for your homeschool group, how to work with younger students and simplify your life when it comes to costumes. Everyone has to start somewhere. You can start small with a short play and build from there like I did. If I can do it, so can you!!!

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Write a Playscript from a Fairy Tale - homeschooldrama.com

1. Write a Playscript from a Fairy Tale

How to Write a Play

Some of our favorite plays and movies are based on fairy tales written a long time ago. If the pros can use something that already exists, so can we!!!

Once upon a time...

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2. Write a Playscript from a Book

How to Write a Play

We often learn from duplicating what we see and hear around us. When we learn to draw, we first copy someone else’s drawing or something we see in nature before we come up with an original work of art on our own. In writing a playscript, it can be the same way.

Check out this example from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!

3. Write a Playscript from the Bible

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There are hundreds of stories in the Bible. Why not create a playscript from some of the stories and watch them come to life.

Be inspired by these examples...

Write a Playscript from Multiple Books - homeschooldrama.com

4. Write a Playscript from Multiple Stories

How to Write a Play

During our readings, we read many of Aesop’s fables. There are so many interesting characters and great messages to be learned in those fables, so I thought it would be fun to write a play based on some of them. If I can do it, so can you!!!

Learn how...

Write an Abridged Playscript from a Full-Length Play - homeschooldrama.com

5. Write an Abridged Playscript from a Full-length Play

How to Write a Play

A full-length play can seem a bit long for your group, but what about an abbreviated version of it? Maybe you are already studying one in literature class and would love to perform it but need to cut it down to fit your schedule and class.

Check out this example from Macbeth...

Write a Playscript About an Historical Event - homeschooldrama.com

6. Write a Playscript about an Historical Event

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Performing a play based on an historical event is a great way to help your kids and audience learn more about that important time in history. Maybe you have a particular event in mind that you would love to share with others and haven’t found a play that portrays it just as you would like or maybe there isn’t one at all. Here’s where we come in…

Let's get started with these tips...

Write a Playscript for a Radio Play - homeschooldrama.com

7. Write a Playscript for a Radio Play

How to Write a Play

Imagine acting out a play and the audience can’t see what you are doing? How do you help them to understand what is happening if they can’t see you?

Find out how...

8. Write a Playscript with a Plot Twist to a Familiar Story

How to Write a Play

Have you ever read a story or watched a play and thought, “Hey, I think it should have ended this way!” Or “Wouldn’t it be cool if the other guy won the race?”

How would that change the ending?

Check out 4 examples here...

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9. Write an Original Play

How to Write a Play

When writing an original play of any genre, it’s helpful to start with a prompt or a theme. This blog will take you through the steps I took to write a mystery play, in hopes it’ll inspire you.

Follow these simple steps...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 30-minute play

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Based on Lewis Carroll's book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this short 30-minute play includes the original language and characters that we have all come to love. Travel with Alice as she follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland and meets other wacky characters like the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts. (illustration by John Tenniel)

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Drama Curriculum

Inspired from the blog series, now you can get the full curriculum here so you can start writing a play today!

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Games & Plays

Let the story come to life today with these drama games and plays available in downloadable PDFs.