ABSTRACT
Pay special attention to the climax of your play. The climax is the highest point of tension, when the basic conflict reaches its ultimate height and begins to descend. Worthington Miner, an American director in the 1920s and 1930s, expresses it this way:
A play is a preamble to a climax and that climax must be the consummate statement of the play’s intention … it is the completion of a statement regarding some selected human beings in a cycle of selected circumstances. 1
