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Ramu Ramanathan Profile picture
Ramu Ramanathan
@BoodhuRamu
Would like to be a playwright and printer like Alois Senefelder who invented lithography in the 18th century
Mar 27, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Ten tweets about playwriting for #WorldTheatreDay

Conducted playwriting workshops in 2021. ​Many young people said they have stopped relating to Indian theatre of the 20th century

Plus the impossibility of writing a 21st century playtext

Some thoughts (tips and tricks) ... THE OPENING

I've maintained that Bleak House is the best of Dickens. Some say, over-rated; some say, anti woman!

Guess what is the first word of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House (1853)? Also it’s first sentence?

London

PS: Yes, sometimes, the opening is as simple as that