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I want to know how to organize complex plots for theater. Let me give you guys some examples of what I mean by complex plots:
>A Midsummer Night Dream
>Twelfth Night
>The Comedy of Errors
>Volpone
>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
>A Little Night Music
>Some Like it Hot
>A Fished Called Wanda
I want to know how I can organize a plot with disguises, change of identities, mistakes, masquerades, last minute inversions, revelations, and all that web of knotty lines of action that eventually converge on a single point.
Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting? The books about plot I know focus more on simpler things, on how to gain ideas for the main plot, on the act structure, but not on how to organize yourself in so complicated labyrinths.
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Just start with a straightforward draft. Then work backwards, changing and connecting things. Convolute every subsequent draft until satisfied.
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>>8050382
That's a nice idea: I was even thinking in drawing things, scenes, making lines to conect characters, etc.
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>>8050311
>Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting?
David Mamet has written about this
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>>8050566
Dont fall for this, OP. Mamet has some good plays, but this book tells you nothing of how to craft a good play.
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>>8050618
your post would have more credibility if you proffered an alternative.
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>>8050311
bump: I am also interested in the same thing
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http://www.amazon.com/Backwards-Forwards-Technical-Manual-Reading/dp/0809311100
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>>8052237
wow, that's really nice.
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