Writing the Fight: What Playwrights and Dramaturgs Need to Know About Staging Violence"Part 2 by HowlRound

By Meron Langsner. Stage combat is the art of creating the illusion of violence for the sake of storytelling. Some illusions are easier and/or less expensive than others. One thing I've found myself saying many times is that the difference between one character pulling a knife on another versus breaking a bottle and threatening to attack them with the broken base is hundreds of dollars.

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