Performance Writing 107 -- Create Confrontation
Big Thought
You’ve focused on the voice of one character. Now your characters can interact around a conflict. Conflict is the center of drama, whether that drama unfolds in a play, a song, or a poem (or any other piece of art). The work for this program will become a scene, a poem for two performers, or a duet.
Using your two characters and the conflict you’ve created, place them in the setting you designed, inventing the circumstances (however unlikely) that placed them there. For a scene, that setting could be highly visual as the set. For a song or a poem, it could range from a context you use as the writer, or it could appear within the poem or lyrics as part of the exchange.
Have one character try to get his or her object of value back from the other, in dialogue, using various tactics.
Write a brief scene (2-3 pages) between the two characters, a poem for two performers, or a duet, using the provided conflict as your launching point.
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