Stage your story
Bring a story. Cast it, direct it, keep the performance.
Bring something you’ve written, a premise, or a classic from the library. Canovaccio turns it into acts and scenes, you choose the cast, and an AI cast performs it while you direct, scene by scene. When the curtain falls, you keep the script and the show.
Start with what you have
Your pages, or just an idea
Canovaccio asks which you brought.
Bring your pages
Paste or import something you’ve written and it’s adapted: broken into acts and scenes, speakers named, prose tidied for the stage, your story and ending intact.
Bring an idea
Start from a premise and choose to develop it: Canovaccio fills out the scenes, inventing the detail and dialogue you left open and staying true to everything you wrote.
How a Script comes together
From the first page to the curtain call
Bring it
Your pages, a premise, or a classic from the library.
Cast it
Choose from the house company of nearly a hundred actors, adopt one the community shares, or create your own, each with a story, a voice and a personality.
Direct it
Cue each beat and the cast plays it together, scene by scene, through to the ending.
Shape it
When the show wraps, trim it in the cutting room and give any scene its own artwork.
From the page to the stage
The story stays yours. The cast finds the words.
A Christmas Carol
One actor and a storyteller carrying a dozen speaking parts, from the counting house to the graveyard and back to Christmas morning.
In the story
The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge back to old Fezziwig’s Christmas party, where he watches his younger self.
On stage, Scrooge says
He danced like a fool. And he was happy, and I cannot for the life of me remember why I stopped.
That line is the cast’s own, not Dickens’s.
Keep what you made
The show is yours to keep
Hear it out loud
Give every actor a distinct voice drawn from 30 accents, then record the finished show.
Take it to a real stage
Download the finished show as a formatted script, like the page below.
Share the performance
Publish to the Showcase with its own link and poster.
Notes from a critic
Once a show runs long enough to judge, a Theater Critic leaves you private notes on your craft.
From stage to page
Download any scripted show as a formatted script: a title page, the full cast, and every scene as your actors played it. Then stage it with your real troupe.
Before the curtain rises
Questions about Scripts
Will it keep my words?
Your story, your characters and your ending, yes. The prose is tidied for the stage and the cast speaks in their own words, so it’s a staging of your story, not a reading of it.
What can I bring?
Something you wrote, a premise, a public domain classic, or other material you have the right to use.
Who can see it?
Only you, until you share or publish it. Share a family friendly show by link and anyone can open it, no account needed, until you close the link. Other shows, and the Showcase, ask viewers to sign in with a free account.
Can I stage it with real actors?
Yes. Download the script and take it to your own troupe.
Places, please
Your story, on its feet
Available in the United States for now. Canovaccio is for adults eighteen and over.