ABSTRACT
Most of the character-related questions are posited, for the playwright, at the start of the play. The thematic and story-oriented questions become most relevant partway through the play, just to make certain the palywrights are telling a story and that all the threads are pulling in the same direction. When Janet Neipris start to write a play, he know the situation, the characters, and how he will begin the play. If he knew everything about his play before he began, what would be the joy of writing it? After a good amount of scenes are complete, he often think about the focus or the theme—what the play is about, which is different from the story. At the opening of every play, something must be happening and that something is the plot. But most of all, playwrights construct plays by asking basic questions about character, plot, time span, location, speech pattern, stage design, style, and conflict.
