Story Theatre sits somewhere between oral storytelling, ensemble theatre and playwriting. You’re not “writing scenes” in the traditional way so much as composing an event where narration and enactment constantly trade places. [more]

Theatre genres overlap and evolve, but they’re usually grouped by tone, structure, purpose and relationship to reality. For example, tragedy is serious drama in which characters confront irreversible consequences. (more)

History is the circumstance, not the subject. A strong historical play isn’t about an era. It’s about the people trapped inside it. The past supplies constraints: laws, beliefs, class, danger and the drama comes from characters pushing against those limits. If the story still works when summarized without dates, you’re on the right track. (more)