Here’s a no doubt incomplete list of ways to open a piece.
- Scene painting
- Busby Berkeley
- true monologues
- character monologues
- Invocation
- Character painting
- Machine
- conducted story
- shared story / shared might-be-true monologue
- song
- interview
- press conference
- pattern game/word association
- answerphone messages,
- I love x because y…
- long scene
- make up a game
- Narrate the action
- become the suggestion and talk about it
