Available now in paperback and eBook Amazon * B&N * Google * More The Fourth Orange by Hillary DePiano Both prequel and sequel to Hillary DePiano’s adaptations of The Love of Three Oranges and The Green Bird, it’s the story of how Franny and Truffaldino first met… with a citrus twist! Looking for a large cast comedy play script with...
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Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here’s one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn’t caught on yet in the playwriting community. It’s a shame because writers are strangely secretive about their process when...
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One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I’m compiling a list of the raciest parts of the script below with pre-approved cuts and...
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If you were inspired by the visual spectacle of Julie Taymor’s award winning Broadway production of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird back in 2000 and wanted to perform it with your students, you were pretty much out of luck… until now! For the first time, there’s a brand new, modernized adaptation of The Green Bird that stays true to...
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The Green Bird is going out of print very soon as it moves over to Playscripts so if you want your copy of the original edition with the pretty green feather cover, you’ve got to act quickly! The books will be listed for sale for mere days more before I have to pull them so don’t delay! To get the eBook, which is the most current revision of...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
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