Posted: 3/5/18 at 10:29pm
If you read any contemporary published plays (Annie Baker, Steven Levenson, Stephen Karam, to name a few), you'll know that they'll use a slash (/) to indicate when the next line should begin. Who was the playwright that pioneered this notation?
Posted: 3/5/18 at 10:45pm
Posted: 3/5/18 at 10:52pm
Caryl Churchill. This Guardian article talks about how she and her publisher came up with it:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/oct/03/caryl-churchill-collaborators-interview
Posted: 3/6/18 at 9:20am
If it's one character breaking in I use a simple dash. If a few words should/might be overlapping, that's for when it reaches rehearsal. I don't fine tune it to that degree. If it's two characters talking at the same time just do double columns. But the only rule that counts is to make it as clear as possible and anyway you see fit to do so is fine. You're the playwright!
