Tonight’s program takes us backstage to witness first-hand the creation, start to finish, of a new play mounted on the American stage.
Asteroid City (2023)
HOST
A screenplay character in Asteroid City (2023).
- lines
- 24
- words
- 510
- scenes
- 7
- dialogue
- 5.1%
- avg words / line
- 21
- shortest / longest
- 3 / 53
Sample dialogue
Players of the stage, a tribe of troubadours and non-conformists; they lead unconventional, sometimes dangerous, lives which nourish and elevate their artistic aspirations -- and illuminate the human condition. Next: ten weeks later, the eve of “Asteroid City’s” first public preview, a drawing room onboard the Apache Plainsliner bound for the California coast.
scene 20, source scene 21 — INT. SLEEPING COMPARTMENTWhere you going?
scene 41, source scene 42 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. EVENING-- and join our company as they take the stage for their first read-through rehearsal. Location: the Tarkington Theatre, 345 South Northwest Avenue.
scene 1, source scene 2 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. EVENINGSchubert Green, born Shylock Grzworvszowski.
scene 20, source scene 21 — INT. SLEEPING COMPARTMENTWho wasn’t going to be famous? On any given day: roll-call in Saltzburg Keitel’s classroom was a now-dazzling list of undiscovered luminaries:
scene 32, source scene 33 — INT. TELEVISION STUDIO. DAY
Bookends
Six months into the run, the company received the news: a catastrophic automobile accident. Conrad Earp, American playwright unequaled in passion and imagination, dead at fifty.