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According to Baker's 1919 Chapter IX, how is a scenario tested and revised before dialogue is written, and what is already settled by the time dialogue starts?

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1919 stage-play practice. Baker names no scored test. He gives reader questions (is the author's purpose clear, what is the central interest, what suspense runs from the start through sub-climaxes to the climax), a re-read-with-the-withheld-fact check, a stage-diagram check and a manager's conditional offer as outside test; the scenario also diagnoses the writer's readiness (unclear characters, thin story, wrong proportion, vague aim). Revision is expected: keep the scenario flexible, fold in improvements even after approval, work structure first, then characterisation and atmosphere, then scan against the public. A worked scenario should leave only dialogue and subtle characterisation unsolved. Kismet's annotated scenario shows names changed, a scene cut before rehearsals and a character added when the play was revised.

1919 stage-play practice. Baker names no scored test. He gives reader questions (is the author's purpose clear, what is the central interest, what suspense runs from the start through sub-climaxes to the climax), a re-read-with-the-withheld-fact check, a stage-diagram check and a manager's conditional offer as outside test; the scenario also diagnoses the writer's readiness (unclear characters, thin story, wrong proportion, vague aim). Revision is expected: keep the scenario flexible, fold in improvements even after approval, work structure first, then characterisation and atmosphere, then scan against the public. A worked scenario should leave only dialogue and subtle characterisation unsolved. Kismet's annotated scenario shows names changed, a scene cut before rehearsals and a character added when the play was revised. Curator qualifications: Reader questions and revision order located; Ibsen material second-hand via Henderson, as the producer notes. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] 1919 stage-play practice. Baker names no scored test. He gives reader questions (is the author's purpose clear, what is the central interest, what suspense runs from the start through sub-climaxes to the climax), a re-read-with-the-withheld-fact check, a stage-diagram check and a manager's conditional offer as outside test; the scenario also diagnoses the writer's readiness (unclear characters, thin story, wrong proportion, vague aim). Revision is expected: keep the scenario flexible, fold in improvements even after approval, work structure first, then characterisation and atmosphere, then scan against the public. A worked scenario should leave only dialogue and subtle characterisation unsolved. Kismet's annotated scenario shows names changed, a scene cut before rehearsals and a character added when the play was revised. · locator: Baker Ch. IX source

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