SHOWS

Conversations With Communities: Will Dunne

Presented by Mayor's Office of Special Events

Friday, May 01
2:15 PM — 3:15 PM
Chicago Cultural Center
FREE. No Reservations Required.

Dialogue with distinguished authors as they share unique stories about Chicago during our second annual “Conversations Within Communities” reading series. Proudly presented in partnership with the University of Chicago Press with the generous support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Reading by Will Dunne, author of The Dramatic Writer’s Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories

12:15pm  Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington Street, First Floor, Garland Room
6:30pm The Second City, 1608 N. Wells Street, 4th Floor, Room 402

Moss Hart once said that you never really learn how to write a play; you only learn how to write this play. Crafted with that adage in mind, The Dramatic Writer’s Companion is designed to help writers explore their own ideas in order to develop the script in front of them. No ordinary guide to plotting, this handbook starts with the principle that character is key. “The character is not something added to the scene or to the story,” writes author Will Dunne. “Rather, the character is the scene. The character is the story.”

Having spent decades working with dramatists to refine and expand their existing plays and screenplays, Dunne effortlessly blends condensed dramatic theory with specific action steps—over sixty workshop-tested exercises that can be adapted to virtually any individual writing process and dramatic script. Dunne’s in-depth method is both instinctual and intellectual, allowing writers to discover new actions for their characters and new directions for their stories.

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