In George Pierce Baker's 1919 Chapter IX, what must a play scenario (outline) contain, in what order, and how long should it be?
1919 stage-play practice (US, Yale professor): Baker separates a real scenario from a note or a summary. A real one tells the reader the story, who the people are and their relations and needed past, where it happens, how many acts and scenes, and above all what kind of play it is. It opens with a dramatis personae list, then time, place and settings, then described dramatic action with only the background a reader needs; it runs from one or two pages (one act) to twenty or more, clearness before brevity, with no fixed form. This is guidance for a reader such as a manager or actor, not for film or prose.
1919 stage-play practice (US, Yale professor): Baker separates a real scenario from a note or a summary. A real one tells the reader the story, who the people are and their relations and needed past, where it happens, how many acts and scenes, and above all what kind of play it is. It opens with a dramatis personae list, then time, place and settings, then described dramatic action with only the background a reader needs; it runs from one or two pages (one act) to twenty or more, clearness before brevity, with no fixed form. This is guidance for a reader such as a manager or actor, not for film or prose.
Curator qualifications: Scenario contents (story, people/relations/history, settings, act division, nature of play) and order located.
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