The main importance of plays is to inform and to entertain your audience. Most plays will only show their audience one of those through the sitting of the performance. When writing short plays, the play writer has to inform and entertain the audience in 5-10 minutes to get their point across. There are challenges for short play writers like developing characters as well as trying to develop the plot in such a small amount of time. There are also benefits of writing short plays like keeping the audience’s attention throughout the whole play rather then the audience sitting bored through a full play, they also take less time to write, so the play writer could get more than one story done a year for their publisher. In the plays Sure Thing and The Philadelphia in David Ives’, All In The Timing, David Ives demonstrates how he succeeds as a short play writer. Ives uses techniques like repetition and rhythm in both of these plays to inform and entertain his audience. …show more content…
David Ives uses rhythm and repetition in Sure Thing and The Philadelphia. Both of these stories have a fast pace to them in order to get the most out of the plays. On pg. 76-77 in The Philadelphia, Mark and the Waitress go on a rhythm and rhyme dialogue which is a fast paced confrontation that grabs the attention of the audience. In the play Sure Thing, Ives uses a bell every time Bill says the wrong thing to Betty. Bill continuously messes up and the bell doesn’t stop repeating itself until he doesn’t mess up anymore. Ives technique of using repetition was very effective to the reader because if he would’ve taken that bell out of the script, the reader would still be able to identify where the bell would go off in the play. This made Ives an effective short play writer because he was able to grab the attention of his audience using simple techniques that made his plays stand