Call me Dragonman . . .

Allegedly retired, I am still pretty busy with projects. I was in a Writers' Club a while back and produced some short stories that have met with some success at private readings.

Current project is trying to turn one of these stories into a one act play, of sorts. My challenge is the original is mainly exposition with only some dialog.

I am contemplating this as a "readers theater" type piece, where performers stay seated, but emotively read the lines.

Hints and suggestions on making this a more play-like experience would be appreciated. We have a community theater club that I am eyeing as a possible venue, and I think this can be as good as some of the other locally authored productions have been!

@OV_Dragonman Hey, Dragoman...welcome to #IAS Your 'readers theater' concept is very cool. Have you piloted any of these yet? Recordings????

@steaphan Piloted a production . . . no. I have performed in two with my community's group and I used to narrate for Audible. I stopped doing the Audible stuff because it just did not pay well.

I have a first draft of my story formatted as a performance piece for the Readers' Theater group I'm in now. We do public domain old radio plays, so I tried to emulate that. Think sit down performances with just expressive voicing. Talked to the facilitator and there's a chance we'll try it for the final session in two weeks.

I took some liberty with the exposition and divided it up so we are going to use four narrators. The purpose of that was so everyone in the group gets a chance to speak. If that is successful, I want to approach our community Theater Group to see if they are interested in it. Run time is about half hour, so it could fit with another short piece.

@OV_Dragonman how can authors/readers in your area get involved?

@steaphan Not really understanding your question.

I live in a 55+ community and you must live here to participate in our clubs. Other than that I do not have an answer for you.