But when you have written your playlet and have sold it to a manager who has produced it, your work is not yet done.
Finally, if every other investigation has failed to develop the needed punch, go over yourplaylet again to see if it is possible that you have erred in the first principle of the art.
The System," which is a playlet dealing with the detection of detectives, is but one example in point.
The clever playlet writer is advertised by the ease--the simplicity--with which he condenses every bit of the exposition into the opening speeches.
True enough, in really big scenes a character may rise to lofty expression; but of all playlet moments, here sane selection and compression are most vital.
In showing how a playlet writer gets an idea and how his mind works in developing it, we took the problem of "The System" and developed it into a near-plot form.
The middle of your playlet must conceal just enough to keep the stream of suspense flowing eagerly toward the end, which is dimly seen to be inevitably approaching.
In the second place, you will be more likely to produce a life-like playlet if you are not forever groping among strange terms, which make you conscious all the time that you are dealing with unreality.
By "action," as the word is used here, I mean that the story of the playlet is told by the movements of its characters.
The firstplaylet on the bill was Zanin's Any Street.
The short dramas of Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, William Sharpe, Gordon Bottomley, and Theodore Dreiser show the possibilities of the playlet for weird effect.
The effect of the ghostly may be attained with much more unity in a short story or playlet than in a novel or long drama, for in the more lengthy form much outside matter is necessarily included.
