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.
Just start with a straightforward draft. Then work backwards, changing and connecting things. Convolute every subsequent draft until satisfied.
>>8050382
That's a nice idea: I was even thinking in drawing things, scenes, making lines to conect characters, etc.
>>8050311
>Is there a book that helps with this kind of ploting?
David Mamet has written about this
>>8050566
Dont fall for this, OP. Mamet has some good plays, but this book tells you nothing of how to craft a good play.
>>8050618
your post would have more credibility if you proffered an alternative.
>>8050311
bump: I am also interested in the same thing
http://www.amazon.com/Backwards-Forwards-Technical-Manual-Reading/dp/0809311100
>>8052237
wow, that's really nice.
