Season One

Hosted by Emily C. A. Snyder
An in-depth primer on how verse drama is its own unique form of storytelling
and how you can begin to take ownership of the form for yourself

Defining Verse Drama

Episode One: Defining Verse Drama (Prose vs. Poetry)

S1 E1 Defining Verse Drama

Episode Two: Content Dictates Form (When to write in verse)

S1 E2 Content Dictates Form

Episode Three: Schwumpf, There It Is (Perhaps the Most Important Episode, AKA: What does a line of verse actually do?  With a side of German philosophy.)

S1 E3 Schwumpf, There It Is

Episode Four: Heresy! (What are some things we believe about verse...that are simply untrue?  Join Emily as she runs from a mob of angry academics!)

Episode Five: Tool Boudoir (What makes a line of verse?  What does meter, scansion, white space and other tools available to us do?)

Episode Six: Beyond Iambic Pentameter (From the first blank verse play, to modern iterations...and the pitfalls of counting to ten)

Episode Seven: Experimental Forms (Irregular line endings? Check. Unmetered verse? Check. Loads of white space and things unsaid? Check.  Who said verse was stodgy?)