Ethno-Playography: How to Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, & Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, and Current Events—For all Ages with Samples for Performance  

Table of Contents

 

Ethno * Playography 

 

How to Write Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, & Skits

or Documentaries from Life Stories: Create Dramas from

Social Issues, and Current Events—For all Ages with Samples

for Performance

 

Introduction............................................................................ix

 

 

1

Sample Ethnographic Play and Monologues for

Performance ....................................................................1

 

2

Create Customized Family History and Migrations

Maps for Your Life Story Plays or Skits......................197

 

3

Writing, Publishing, and Selling Your Own Family

History Novels as Small Booklets or Pamphlets ........223

 

4

How to Format Your Family History Novel or

Novella Manuscript to Adapt for a Script..................254

 

5

Self Promotion and Plugging Self-Published and

Print-On-Demand Family History Novels ................262

 

6

Pre-Selling Your Family History Novel with a

Web Hub before Publication ......................................278

 

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7

Getting a Strong and Visible Platform for Print-on-

Demand Family History Novels ................................287

 

8

Writing Family History and Romantic Memoirs as

Time Capsules for Internet Video Theater or Radio....296

 

9

Adapting Life Stories and Current Issues in the

News to Plays, Skits, Monologues, Scripts, Stories,

and Family History Novels..........................................305

 

10

Should You Become a Family History Novel Book

Publisher? ....................................................................313

 

11

Writing about Peoples’ Inner Payoffs and Moral

Needs in Family History Fiction ................................321

 

12

Using Fictionalized True Stories in the News as

Family History Novels ................................................325

 

13

How Family History Novels Actually Sell Solutions

to Real Relationship Problems....................................330

 

14

Writing a “Dramatizing Life Stories” Syllabus ..........366

 

 

15

Opening Your Own Genealogy/Personal History

Online or Broadcast TV Program15 ..........................393

 

16

How to Open a Business Producing Family History

Specialty/Niche Training Videos, Skits, or Plays Based

on Life Stories, Social History, Events, or Current

Issues in the News........................................................410

 

17

Create and Webcast Online or on TV a Training

Video on Document Rescue ......................................423

 

18

How to Produce Online Broadcasts of Video &

Multimedia Extended Family Newsletters ................435

 

19

How to Write, Finance, and Produce Reunion

Documentaries, Dramatizations, and/or Plays,

Skits, or International Family Reunions Online:

Videoconferencing, Newsletters, DVDs, and Reports

by Satellite, Webcasting, or Camera Phones ..............479

 

20

Personalized Skits, Video News Releases, & Success

Stories Online ..............................................................486

 

21

Inspirational or Ethnographic Video and Print

Publications for Playwrights and Genealogists..........499

 

22

Writing or Producing Self-Help Seminars Online ....510

 

23

How to Make Online Family History Documentary

Videos with Audio Visual Software ............................525

 

24

What Ethnographic Playwrights and Documentarians

Can Learn from Published Authors about Visibility

Online ..........................................................................539

 

Appendix A: Directory of Cable and National Broadcast

Media............................................................................593

 

Appendix B: Video Wholesalers and Distributors ............601

 

 

Bibliographies 1 through 7..................................................609

 

 

Index ....................................................................................633

 

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Introduction

 

 

Here’s how to research, interview, write, and market

ethnographic plays, monologues, or skits, docu-dramas, or

documentaries from life story experiences, highlights, social

issues, current events, rites-of-passage, coming-of-age, and

life’s turning points. Or start your own play-based or

dramatized life story, news, and social issues or current

events-based documentary and/or ancestry-television

business online.

 

Ethno-playography is a word I coined in 2007. The term

describes the geography and joy of play, song, dance, music,

art, writing, oral traditions, poetry, and drama around the

world encompassing ethnic customs, folklore, games, life

story experiences, reminiscence, and traditions.

 

Learn how to launch ethnographic or multi-cultural family

history/genealogy television shows globally on your Web site,

produce videos, and publish hobby materials or life stories as

a pay-per-view or sponsored free entertainment. Genealogy is

the second most popular hobby in the country, with more

than 113 million participants and researchers. Create social,

oral, or personal history documentaries highlighting life

stories. Or customize vintage maps and family atlases and use

copies of them as props in your play or skit. Then put your

drama in a time-capsule to show to future generations.

 

Develop an educational business supplying explorers and

investigators in family history, ancestry, or DNA-driven

genealogy as social history. Most people want to know more

about their roots, origins, home life, work day, social status,

relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes,

customs, folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the

social issues in the news during the time in which their

ancestors lived.

 

You’ll learn how to adapt real life stories into romance

novels, skits, plays, monologues, or biographies. You’ll see the

techniques of starting and operating a genealogy journalism

and personal history business. Here’s how to interview

individuals or groups and record life experiences as an oral

historian.

 

Avoid the pitfalls. Learn how to start a genealogy television

network (station) on your Web site. Here’s how to finance,

write scripts, interview, and produce a documentary. Here are

the techniques and tools for you to write, publish, and market

family or personal history publications such as books or

newsletters on a shoestring budget. Start and operate a

business supplying tools, research, training, and entertainment

for those interested in genealogy, family history/ancestry,

vintage maps, and current issues in the news—for the

hobbyist, researcher, or entrepreneur. For further resources,

see my Web site at http://annehart.tripod.com.

 

 

Chapter 1

 

 

Sample Ethnographic Play and

Monologues for Performance

 

 

An adventure in Ethno-Playography

 

The Play and Monologues

 

By Anne Hart

Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops: Adapting Current Events, Social Issues, Life Stories, News & Histories Finally there’s a book for classrooms and drama groups to learn how to write one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages and at the same time perform the plays and monologues already in the book.  In the title, Writing 45-Minute One-Act Plays, Skits, Monologues, & Animation Scripts for Drama Workshops: Adapting Current Events, Social Issues, Life Stories, News & Histories, by Anne Hart, ASJA Press imprint, iUniverse, Inc., paperback, 297 pages, March 2005, is a complete guide book for teachers, students, parents, drama groups of all ages, and drama workshop leaders on how to write 45-minute one-act plays for teenagers, high-school drama classes, and youth playwriting workshops. The sample plays and monologues in the book provide opportunity for performance before an audience or can be adapted as a radio play for Internet theatre presentation. The ethnographic plays and monologue offer a voice of resilience to performers interested in ethnic plays, skits, or monologues. Here’s a guide book on how to write 45-minute one-act plays, skits, and monologues for all ages. Step-by-step strategies and sample play, monologue, and animation script offer easy-to-understand solutions for drama workshop leaders, high-school and university drama directors, teachers, students, parents, coaches, playwrights, scriptwriters, novelists, storytellers, camp counselors, actors, lifelong learning instructors, biographers, facilitators, personal historians, and senior center activity directors. Guide young people in an intergenerational experience of interviewing and writing skits, plays, and monologues based on the significant Events and experiences from lives of people. Learn to write skits, plays and monologues based on historical events and personalities. What you’ll get out of this book and the exercises of writing one-act plays for teenage actors and audiences of all-ages audience, are improved skills in adapting all types of social issues, current events, or life experience to 45-minute one-act plays, skits, or monologues for teenage or older adult drama workshops. How do you write plays and skits from life stories, current events, social issues, or history? Are you looking for the appropriate 45-minute, one-act play for high-school students or other teenagers, for community center drama workshops, or even for home school projects or for events and celebrations? Are you seeking one-act plays for older adults drama workshops? Use personal or biographical experiences as examples when you write your skit or play. If you want a really original play, write, revise, and adapt your own plays, skits, and monologues. Here’s how to do it. The plays focus on current events, social Issues in the news, ethnic issues, intermarriage and interfaith issues, family issues, and monologues for performance emphasizing life story highlights. Browse the book at the publisher's Web site.

Relevant Links: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-34597-2