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Openings: a summary


Cindy Tonkin - September 22, 2016

Here’s a no doubt incomplete list of ways to open a piece.

  • Scene painting
  • Busby Berkeley
  • true monologues
  • character monologues
  • Invocation
  • Character painting
  • Machine
  • conducted story
  • shared story / shared might-be-true monologue
  • song
  • interview
  • press conference
  • pattern game/word association
  • answerphone messages,
  • I love x because y…
  • long scene
  • make up a game
  • Narrate the action
  • become the suggestion and talk about it

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