This week we are doing playscripts in Literacy

Can you use this list of key features in your play script?

I have listed the characters at the beginning

I have introduced and described the scene (where/where).

Characters’ names are written on the left

Characters’ names have a colon after them

I have started a new line for every new speaker.

My stage directions are in brackets (   )

My stage directions are written in the present tense

I have stage directions for how the actors must speak

I have stage directions for how the actors must move

Every time the setting changes (changes place or time) I have started a new scene

I have used  …  to show a character is thinking or stuttering

I have used CAPITALS or italics to emphasise words

My play script has 1-3 Acts (Act 1 beginning, Act 2 middle, Act 3 end)

There are NO speech marks