1 Minute Play & Key Terms

After reading Phyllis and Xenobia and One Minute Play by Christopher Durang, please get together in groups of 1-2 and write a short play/scene.

Some key terms:

Character: a representation of a person in a story, play, film, or poem.

• Readers and writers can often tell something about a character by what the character says and how he/she says it.

Dialogue: the written or recorded conversation a character has in a story, play, film, or poem.

• In a play, dialogue is how information about a situation and about a character is communicated to an audience.

Stage Directions: instructions or directions in a play to help create a scene, setting, or describe an important action. These are off-set by italics or put in parenthesis.