

It is designed for performance and has actors taking the roles of characters, performing the specific actions and speaking selected dialogue. JSS3 Physical and Health Education (PHE)Ī playscript is a script for a theatrical play.JSS2 Physical and Health Education (PHE).JSS1 Physical and Health Education (PHE).Stage directions go for 2.5 inches before wrapping, so that it makes a nice little centered paragraph on your page.

Type your stage directions in parenthesis, 2.75 inches from the left side of the page. Also, dialog has no special right margin, only the 1-inch margin you set at the beginning. If you are typing dialog, begin all the way at the left margin, which is set to 1.5 inches. On the line directly below the character's name, you will begin to type the dialog he is speaking, or the action he is performing. When it is time for a character to speak (or perform an action), you type the character's name in all caps, centered on the page. Use Roman numerals for the act names and Arabic numerals for the scene names. Enter down two spaces and type the scene name using the same format. To begin an act and a scene, center your text and type the name of the act and underline it (all in caps). The different elements of your script (characters, dialog, stage directions, etc.) are all placed differently on the page, but they follow a standard format that you can save as a template. The top, bottom and right margins should all be set to 1 inch. You will have to adjust this when you get to Act II, and so on. If you want only the page number, go to "Insert" and "Page Numbers." If you would like to number each act, go to "View" and "Headers and Footers" and have Word add "Act I" (note the Roman numerals) to the top of the page. At this point, you have to decide if you want to have the act number with the page number, or just the page number by itself. This page-and the pages after it-need to have page numbers. This will be the first page of your script. Hit "Enter" until you are on the next page.
