Scripts... You are doing it wrong.

Writing a script is not as easy as it seems.
Well yeah, everyone can write a script, anyone can take 2 or more names and give lines to each characters. But thats not the point. You need your script to be DESTROYED AND RE WRITTEN by Roberto to learn :D right? >.>

What i have learned:

The 5 commandments for writing scripts according to Roberto:

1) You shall not write too much description about the actions.

2) You Shall always work on the subtext before than the line.

3) If there shall be a chorus, thou shall make them say lines, not sounds.

4) Thou shall make stage directions short and clear.

5) It Shall not matter how great your script it. Roberto will always change it.


Charles: I BEG TO DIFFER.
Judge: How dare you speak like that? You should always agree with the commandments. They have been set upon us from the Theatre God: Roberto.
Charles: I DON'T BELEIVE SUCH NONSENSE. GOD DOES NOT EXIST!
Judge: Such disrespectful words can get you into big trouble.

JURY: GOD IS LOVE. GOD IS INMORTAL. GOD IS REAL.

(Charles stomps the floor)

Charles: I have heard enough of all this nonsense. I have had enough of living with this false traditions.
Judge: The excommunication will do you well. The suffering that awaits for you in hell shall be your punishment.
Charles: (Laughs) You really beleive that shit... how sorry I feel for you.

JURY: YOU WILL BURN IN HELL. YOU WILL SUFFER IN HELL. YOUR SOUL WILL BURN IN HELL.

Judge: I'M SICK OF YOU! (hammers the table) tell us, why do you say we, who follow our father in tue skies, are wrong. And you... the only one who thinks differently is right?
Charles: because The 5 commandments are wrong. A playwright is supposed to make the script according to his vision of the play. Making the script more detailed will limit the actor with the character he is exploring, because a certain stage direction will make the actor follow it, giving him what could be called a rule.

Judge: Stop! What is your point?

Charles: (moving) if you give a very detailed stage direction then you limit the actors interpretation of the character. This can be used by a playwright that wants his play to be performed in a certain way. But you can also write stage direction which are more free to interpretation. such as "moving" or you can try to make the. reader. read. a. certain. part. slower. to give him a different first impression as you can also make reader faster more dynamic text first impression text.

And the same way as the playwright can make his script free to interpretation as limit the interpretation, if there are rules for the playwright to write upon, then it is limiting the imagination of the playwright. If someone wants to write in a certain way it may have a purpose for being that way. if u wantz it to saund ztupid u wrait in bad grammars, while in the other hand, you could very well write in a very classy, or if i may, sophisticated way to change the image the reader will create of the character. For example, this last paragraph is contradicting as it says that the playwright should not limit the actors interpretation of the character by saying that the playwright can make the reader see the character different. it causes confusion and that is another technique, that goes against the rules, and can be used if the author was free to write whatever he wants.

JURY: EXILE HIM NOW. MAKE HIM LEAVE NOW.
Judge: No! let him finish.

Charles: The point is that there should be no rules on how to write a script, because if there are rules, you are limiting the playwright as the playwright will then limit the actor reading the script. These rules should be abolished and so give much more freedom to write a script. Because otherwise, you are limiting the vast techniques a playwright could use to write a script.

Judge: You are an anarchist. You shall me exiled right away. This case is closed. I'm tired of listening to your nonsense.

JURY: DO RULES LIMIT IMAGINATION OR DO RULES MAKE IT INTERPRETED IN A RANGE OF IDEAS? SHOULD WE LIMIT THE READER OR LET HIM MAKE HIS OWN CHARACTER? TO WHAT EXTENT IS MAKING THE SCRIPT LIMITING GOOD AND WHERE DOES IT START TO BE CLOSED AND IMPOSSIBLE FOR DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS?

Lights out. applauses. Charles screams.