Did somebody get paid for writing that?

Script

A plot.

Screenplay by Kaneto Shindo

You aspire to a world like Homer's.

The brilliant playwright, Adrienne Kennedy, wrote a volume called People Who Led to My Plays.

Just read these scripts. See how it's done.

I was a member of the Foreign Office operatic society.

13 plays and an opera this summer.

How was the show?

Story and Screenplay

I see you're reading a play?

He'll write great plays for me. I'll make them great.

This is fascinating.

She read the script?

It's a good script, isn't it?

You know, half the play depends on someone

Some children. They call sometimes and say cruel things.

The Tragedy of Ben Bernanke

What does the script say?

Then do the script!

either for tragedy, comedy, history,

You listen as if someone else had written your play. Whom do you have in mind?

To speak to just a playwright's wife?

We're the ones writing this opera.

That's not in the script.

Sure. He hasn't read the script yet.

Not a screenwriter.

I see it all now. It's a plot.

La commedia è finita.

The larger share belongs to my friends in the theatre, and to the theatre itself which has given me all I have.

I thought if I really got going I could finish it up in a couple of weeks.

Musical, musical!

Find that which is not.

That's a very funny play you've got in there, in spots.

Contend for the manuscript that strives for the freedom and the liberation

And you have written pictures, haven't you?

When the shooting script was finished he asked me to stay for production meetings and casting.

You always said you loved that script.

Now, the best breeding ground for good comic writing is the stand up comedy circuit, where they just happen to say that you kill when you do well and you bomb when you do badly.

That's why you said... the tragedy was something I could never understand.

Could have avoided all this mess.

Who read with Miss Casswell?

Would you like to write the script? No.

The Platonic commentaries, the plays, the histories.