Theater cannot cut. Audiences must know information and that information cannot arrive through an edit. To break the fourth wall and for everyone to stay in character, the actor has to provide any information lacking. 2 / 2
Writers who have “paid their dues” by attending rehearsals understand the expense of that decision. They figure out the order of their character’s movements throughout the story by putting them in the proper entrances, exits, and scene shifts to avoid tossing the director an unsolved puzzle.
Each idea for a stage play needs to answer one central question first: Why are these people stuck together for two hours? A wedding, a will reading, a locked office, a long night in a hospital corridor. Once the trap is set, the play generates its own momentum and the writer will keep asking yourself the most important questions until your play answers them all.
Generative plays are written for the camera. While two page breaks move us to a different location, and stage directions include references made to optical close-ups and the weather, this structure, and others, provide direction that makes sense to the writers; however, all this direction falls apart when a director asks how the set is meant to move.
We agree on size of cast, running time and limitations of staging, and then build the play scene by scene. This ensures that no actor is ever left on stage in costume for forty minutes. Then, the dialogue is written, and the play is read aloud with the parts assigned, as some lines which look fine on the page, can be nearly impossible to say.
The review pass is practical work, so we review entrances and exits, costume changes and if there is enough time for changes, and if the stage directions explain to the directors what happens, but not how to direct it. We do a read-aloud so that we can test the speech patterns and particularly the longer speech sections.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical stage play | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ten-minute play | 1,500 | $150 | $1.50 | $151.50 |
| One-act play | 6,500 | $650 | $6.50 | $656.50 |
| Full-length two-act play | 16,000 | $1,600 | $16 | $1,616 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Anything from 100 words up. Because you pay by the word you are never buying padding to fill a package tier.
Yes. Tell us the volume and cadence and we keep the same writer on the account so the voice stays consistent. The rate does not change with volume.
Yes, and the details are very helpful. Eleven teenagers, two strong singers and one in a wheelchair is way more detailed than a simple headcount because the writer can create specific roles based on the given information rather than leaving the cast list needing to be reduced.
They do. You have the copyright as soon as we deliver the program. We never take a royalty and ask for no credit in the program. You can perform or publish the script, and you don’t need to ask for our permission first to enter the script into competitions.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
I asked for some advice with a plot that I have been tweaking for years. The suggestion was to fix the mess in the middle and to just leave the ending the way it is. I guess they were right and I wouldn’t have arrived at that conclusion on my own.
At a natural pace, the speech was about ninety seconds over the twelve minute mark. Editing it was simple because your structure was clear, but I shouldn’t have to. Our director called the content of your speech the best written thing that she has ever delivered.
I couldn’t write it myself and had to ask for help two days before. It came the next morning looking plain and quiet with none of the words I was dreading. My aunt asked who wrote it and I said.
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