billwill
Thursday 3rd September 2009 9:34pm [Edited]
North London
6,162 posts
When I was preparing The Scriptwriters' Toolkit, I did some research on stage-play script formats and could not at that time find anything consistent.
I gather that the USA uses a format not very different from film-script format, so that would be what you have in Final Draft.
I prepared 3 different stage-play formats, which you can try out.
The toolkit is a set of templates for Microsoft Word 2000-2003, but not 2007.
I have supplied a FREE link for BCG members.
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/14314
Quote: Ronnie Anderson @ September 3 2009, 6:04 PM BST
I am entering a play competition in the recent future and I am in a bit of a qunadry regarding layout. I have used the same format for the plays I have sent off, however someone much more experienced in theatre than me has informed me that this fomrat is incorrect, without giving much explanation. I was wondering if any of you have a link to a stage play lay out. The one I used was from Final Draft, I think my mistake might be double spacing the lines for the dialogue however I can't see away of stopping the double spaces.
If a competition is expecting a particular format, then they should provide a flysheet describing that format.
Ask the organisers.
