Screenwriting Software

Detailed computer programs are designed specifically to format screenplays, teleplays and stage plays. A number of these programs offer access to online screenwriter communities. Celtx, DreamaScript, Final Draft, Movie Outline 3.0, FiveSprockets, and Montage are several such programs. Software is also available as web applications, accessible from any computer, and on mobile devices.

There's a free download here...

Some writers workshop details here

Screenwriting visualisation is here

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Do you have existing scripts that you want to import to Practical Scriptwriter ?

If you do then you may be interested in a script conversion utility we are developing. The Beta is available as a free download here. It will only accept screenplay format scripts in rich text format (.RTF) at present and it's not fully automatic, you may have some changes to make before you can import. But it should avoid too much retyping.

Be warned, it requires version 3.5 of the .NET framework and windows installer version 3.1 (both available as free downloads from Microsoft, but they may be lengthy downloads). Windows only at present.

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Scriptware for Macs...

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• FREEWARE Websites
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• VIDEO AND PODCAST PLAYER Software
• COMMUNICATION Software
• SCRIPTWRITING Software
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Free scriptwriting software

Experimental Plays

Read Bo's experimental plays cataloged here (below), and become his friend.

Puppet Play, One Act Play (164K)

SETTING: The play is split between Big D's dressing room backstage at the Happy Fun Time Show, and Mark's bachelor pad apartment. Mark's apartment contains an overly large television that doubles as a Puppet Theatre. The Time is now.

Happiness Hunting, One Act Play (72K)

(A burnt forest is littered with ash and blackened tree stumps. Happiness enters and gives all the necessary information for the curtain speech)

HAPPY: (Enters) Hello. Good evening and welcome to this performance of "Happiness Hunting". Ok, what do I have to say, oh right, um please turn off your cell phones and pagers, anything that beeps or vibrates, I don't want to know what it is, just please turn it off...

Something New, One Act Play (51K)

Cliff and Dawn are wondering around the stage trying to find their way to the bar. Cliff is nervously trying to lead the way, while Dawn is relaxed and enjoying the situation.

CLIFF: Don't worry, I'll find it soon enough.

Pre Post Eros, One Act Play (52K)

John, Man, and Paul, are seated in three separate and identical booths; all dressed the same, drinking coffee and reading the same paper. Man is in the center booth. Enter Strange Woman. The three men watch her. She sits in booth with Man, he pretends not to notice

[Pause]

Bored Strange Woman speaks

STRANGE WOMAN: Tell me a story.

Two and ½ Pints, One Act Play (25K)

Bo enters stage left carrying luggage, he is well dressed in suite and tie, throughout the performance the suit jacket and tie will slowly be taken off and discarded.

[Speaking to self]

BO: Okay I'm at gate C... need to get too... Level 14B?

Los Variables, One Page Play (14K)

A near empty stage with a large diagram of a tree center stage. XX and XY Enter from Stage Right and Stage Left, respectively. They laugh together hysterically. They stop together. Look at each other and giggle. As they talk they walk towards each other.

XX: Don't you think it is weird?

Sad Hoopla, One Page Play (15K)

An Actress is onstage holding a hula-hoop. An Actor is kneeling before her dressed as a dog.

Dog: Why are we here?

Ferry Terminal, One Page Play (9K)

Bob: Hey you, what are you doing here, the terminal is closed, get out.

The Fabricator™ Comics, Comic Book (315K)

Better buckle your seat-belts boys and girls because The Fabricator™ is about to take you on a ride.

Royalty-free One Act Plays

ROYALTY-FREE ONE-ACT PLAYS

The Angel Intrudes - Comedy. Floyd Dell. 3 m., 1 f. The Beggar and the King - Comedy. Winthrop Parkhurst. 3 m. The Boor - Comedy. Anton Chekhov. 2 m., 1 f. Campbell of Kilmhor - Drama. J.A. Ferguson. 4 m., 2 f. Chitra - Drama. Rabindranath Tagore. 3 m., 1 f., extras. Cocaine - Drama. Pendleton King. 1 m., 1 f. The Cyclops - Comedy. Euripides. 4 m., extras. Debit and Credit - Drama. August Strindberg. 6 m., 3 f. A Dollar - Comedy. David Pinski. 5 m., 3 f. Echo - Drama. Joseph T. Shipley. 3 m., 1 f. Enemies - Drama. Neith Boyce & Hutchins Hapgood. 1 m., 1 f. Enigma - Drama. Floyd Dell. 1 m., 1 f. Ever Young - Drama. Alice Gerstenberg. 4 f. Facing Death - Drama. August Strindberg. 3 m., 3 f. Forbidden Fruit - Comedy. George Jay Smith. 3 m., 2 f. Fourteen - Comedy. Alice Gerstenberg. 1 m., 2 f. The Game - Drama. Louise Bryant. 2 m., 2 f. The Genius - Drama. Horace Holley. 2 m. Gettysburg - Drama. Percy MacKaye. 1 m., 1 f. Hamlet - Drama. William Shakespeare. 14 m., 2 f., extras. Helena's Husband - Comedy. Philip Moeller. 3 m., 2 f. Her Tongue - Comedy. Henry Arthur Jones. 2 m., 2 f. He Said and She Said - Comedy. Alice Gerstenberg. 1 m., 3 f. His Luck - Drama. Horace Holley. 2 f. His Return - Comedy. Percival Wilde. 1 m., 3 f. Home - Drama. Maurice Maeterlinck. 3 m., 5 f., extras. Ikuta - Drama. Zembo Motoyaso. 3 m., chorus. Ile - Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 5 m., 1 f., extras. The Illuminati in Drama Libre - Drama. Alice Gerstenberg. 1 m., 1 f. The Incompatibles - Comedy. Horace Holley. 2 m., 1 f. The Intruder - Drama. Maurice Maeterlinck. 3 m., 4 f. An Irish Engagement - Comedy. Walter Watts. 4 m., 2 f. King Arthur's Socks - Comedy. Floyd Dell. 1 m., 3 f. Legend - Drama. Floyd Dell. 1 m., 1 f. Living Hours - Drama. Arthur Schnitzler. 3 m. A Long Time Ago - Drama. Floyd Dell. 3 m., 2 f., extras. A March Wind - Drama. Alice Brown. 2 m., 2 f. A Marriage Has Been Arranged - Drama. Alfred Sutro. 1 m., 1 f. The Master-Poisoner - Drama. Maxwell Bodenheim. 2 m., 1 f. A Matter of Husbands - Comedy. Ferenc Molnar. 2 f. Mine Eyes Have Seen - Drama. Alice Dunbar-Nelson. 4 m., 4 f. Mr. Icky - Comedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald. 4 m., 1 f., extras. Not Smart - Comedy. Wilbur Daniel Steele. 2 m., 3 f. The Open Door - Comedy. Alfred Sutro. 1 m., 1 f. Overtones - Drama. Alice Gerstenberg. 4 f. Pariah - Drama. August Strindberg. 2 m. The People - Drama. Susan Glaspell. 10 m., 2 f. The Philosopher of Butterbiggens - Comedy. Harold Chapin. 3 m., 1 f. Pictures - Drama. Horace Holley. 2 m., 1 f. Poet's Heart - Drama. Maxwell Bodenheim. 3 m., 2 f. Porcelain and Pink - Comedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1 m., 2 f. The Pretentious Young Ladies - Comedy. Molière. 9 m., 5 f., extras. The Proposal - Comedy. Anton Chekhov. 2 m., 1 f. A Question of Sex - Comedy. Arnold Bennett. 2 m., 2 f. Riders to the Sea - Drama. J.M. Synge. 1 m., 3 f., extras. The Roadhouse in Arden - Comedy. Philip Moeller. 4 m., 2 f. The Sequel - Comedy. Percival Wilde. 3 m., 1 f. Simoom - Drama. August Strindberg. 2 m., 1 f. The Stepmother - Comedy. Arnold Bennett. 2 m., 2 f. St. Martin's Summer - Comedy. Cosmo Hamilton. 1 m., 2 f. The Stronger - Drama. August Strindberg. 2 f. St. Valentine's Day - Comedy. Annie Eliot. 2 f. The Sun - Drama. John Galsworthy. 2 m., 1 f. Sweet-and-Twenty - Comedy. Floyd Dell. 3 m., 1 f. The Telegram - Drama. Horace Holley. 2 m. They That Sit in Darkness - Drama. Mary Burrill. 4 m., 4 f. Thompson's Luck - Drama. Harry Greenwood Grover. 3 m., 1 f. Trifles - Drama. Susan Glaspell. 3 m., 2 f. Two Slatterns and a King - Comedy. Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1 m., 2 f., 1 other. Thirst - Drama. Eugene O'Neill. 2 m., 1 f. Voices - Drama. Hortense Flexner. 2 f. Why Cupid Came to Earl's Court - Comedy. Cosmo Hamilton. 3 m., 4 f. The Witch of Coös - Drama. Robert Frost. 1 m., 1 f. Yesterday - Comedy. Colin Campbell Clements. 1 m., 1 f. Source: http://www.one-act-plays.com/royalty_free_plays.html More One-Act plays