The Play's The Thing from Channel 4

GUIDELINES FOR WRITERS

Here's a short scene from playwright Charlotte Jones' play Humble Boy to illustrate the usual way that stage plays are set out.
Please print out your script on A4 paper - on one side of the paper only.
Please do not use a font smaller than 11 point.
The optimum length for a commercial West End play is 2-2½ hours [with an interval].
Most commercial plays have no more than 12 in the cast, because of cost.

IDEASFACTORY: playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah.

IDEASFACTORY: ex-offender Brian Campbell - now one of Northern Ireland's most accomplished dramatists.

IDEASFACTORY: Paula McFetridge, artistic director of Belfast's Lyric Theatre.

IDEASFACTORY: Taking audience stage participation to the extreme.