NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks to playwright Kenn Adams about his formula for creating or analyzing stories called the Story Spine.
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST:
This next story – well, it’s a story about stories, specifically about the structure of the stories we tell. My guest on this adventure is Kenn Adams.
KENN ADAMS: I’m the artistic director of Synergy Theater in Walnut Creek, California.
DETROW: And an adventurer of sorts.
ADAMS: Yes, I am. I invented the Story Spine, which is an eight-sentence exercise. And the beginning of the
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