What better way to study drama and playwriting than to perform short plays in class on Zoom with other students – live! With Kevin O’Brien, professional playwright and actor, we will go over a selection of one-act plays in this course and even get some sense of how to write them – and how not to write them!
Mr. O’Brien has written and produced over 40 plays and screenplays. In this course, we’ll look at the challenge of short plays. We’ll read a few one-act plays live in class – with students playing parts if they’d like to! And we’ll try our hand at writing our own short plays – comedies, dramas, adventures and farces!
Class One: Short Plays
Class Two: “The Happy Journey”
Class Three: “Hello Out There!”
Class Four: “Lamb of God”
Class Five: “Who Killed Christmas?”
Class Six: Highlights of Student Plays
Course Materials: PDF files provided FREE by the instructor.
Homework: Auto-Graded Quizzes and a Creative Final Project – writing a short sketch or five-minute play. Plan on about one hour of homework per week.