ABSTRACT
If you are an individual writer or a collaborative/devising group writing for a conventional theatre-performance, you will be thinking about the location(s) that the story takes place in. There are many opinions about how much information and detail the writer needs to supply for the director, designer, lighting designer and sound-artist in order to realise the physical embodiment of the story. My own taste is to be minimal, and to allow as much scope to the other artists as possible. However I would suggest that, as you write, you do need to be as specific in your mind regarding the location(s) as you are with the characters. My own way of dealing with this is to ‘think film’, knowing that – in the end, and wonderfully so – the unique power of live performance can suggest a burning skyscraper through a burning matchstick.
