fffffIn writing this Play, I met standard 2.1 by writing a fictional, semi-autobiographical narrative.My assignment was to write a play that would be performed by professiona
l actors at the Magic Theatre. The Magic Theatre is a place for new playwrites to present their works. While writing this play, I worked with David Ford, a director and occasional writer at the Magic Theatre. During my ten weeks of intensive writing, David helped me when I had trouble getting started, corrected mistakes, offered suggestions, and helped with revisions I needed to make.
fffffDuring the process of composing this play, I discovered the differences in writing a play and other mediums of displaying ideas. Realizing this difference, and adapting to the change, I grew into a better writer being able to now write in another format. I faced many obstacles along the way, perhaps the most difficult was working with confrontational dialogue between characters in the play. By listening to David and blending in my own ideas, I was able to overcome this by means of imagining the conversation between those characters in my head. Not only did my writing skills, but I grew emotionally as well. It wasn’t just during the writing when I developed emotionally; it was during the performance of my play that my ability to cope with past events budded. I wrote the story to be semi-autobiographical, so seeing the characters resemble those in my life so closely, and being able to better understand my own real life situations I developed emotionally and as a writer.