Composer

Import a script. Or write a scene.

Composer is where the scenes your lessons run on are made: the script you are rehearsing, pasted or imported from the file you already have; an improvised scene drafted with an assistant; a picture for a player who needs one — checked before it can be used, so nothing breaks in the room.

Three ways in

Start from your script, a brief, or the Library.

Paste or import a script

Paste the text, or import a file: plain text, a PDF with a text layer, Word (.docx) or Fountain. One speech per line as NAME: words; each character becomes a role (up to eight), each speech a line, and a word in brackets after the name becomes the delivery note. Stage directions and headings are listed as "not used", so you see exactly what was left out. A speech over 400 characters is split at sentence ends. A scanned PDF has no text to read, and Composer tells you so. No AI is involved, so the script goes to no model.

Draft with the assistant

Describe the exercise — the goal, the cast size, the age band, the setting, the language — and the assistant drafts an improvised scene for you to reshape. It can also rewrite a situation or suggest the next beat. It never touches a script's lines or your pictures, and never sees your class lists or lesson records.

Adapt one from the Library

Spontar's ready-made improvised scenes and three short original scripts, each in English, German and French. Add one to your scenes, change what you like, and publish it for your lessons.

The editor

Beats, roles, and checks that know each kind.

Returning the shoes

From the Library · 10 beats · 2 roles · about 8 minutes

Learning goal

Status

	Role	Situation	Feeling
5	The customer	You mention, a little too loudly, that you know the store manager.	bold
6	The clerk	You offer to call the manager over yourself, right now.	calm
7	The customer	You backtrack fast, insisting that won't be necessary after all.	flustered

The same role twice in a row, or a role with no beats, cannot be published. Drafts still save.

You are The clerk

You offer to call the manager over yourself, right now.

calm

The preview shows what the player's card will show.

You are The traveller

The last train has gone.

A picture beat: cropped to 4:3 for the card, with a caption.

Three kinds of beat

A scene is a list of beats, one role each. A beat is a line (the words the character says, with an optional delivery note), a situation and a feeling for the player to improvise from, or a picture. Mix them as the lesson needs. Each can carry one of 64 icons.

Rules that fit each kind

A situation must be readable at a glance, so it stops at 80 characters. A line may run to 400 — the card pages it — and a feeling to 40. A picture beat needs a picture. A role handing over to itself, or a role with no beats, cannot be published. Drafts always save; the checks apply when you publish, because the room is where a broken scene would otherwise be discovered.

Pictures, prepared once

Upload a photo and Composer crops it to the card's 4:3 picture box and makes it small enough to travel with the scene. Pictures are never sent to an AI model. Only upload pictures you have the right to use.

The card, before the room

The preview shows each beat as the actor's card will: for a line, the cue — the last words before it — in grey above it, and the line in each of the three display modes: full, first letters, blank.

Craft notes, built in

For situations: let the players find the words. For lines: keep each speech to what can be read in a breath, and split a long one into two beats with the other actor's reaction between.

A teacher at a desk in the evening, writing a scene in Composer on a laptop — a table of beats with one row green and one amber — a player card lying beside the keyboard on its lanyard. — Written the evening before, played the next morning. The card on the desk is where every beat ends up. Illustration of intended use.

The Library

Start from something that already works.

The public Library

Ready-made scenes open to every Spontar account — today, Spontar's own 24 improvised scenes and three short original scripts, in English, German and French. Institutions can publish their own scenes to it, anonymously. Add one to your scenes, publish it, and run it as it stands or adapt it to your group.

Your own library

Everything you write stays with your institution — yours to keep, reuse and refine, visible to your colleagues and nobody else. The class app runs only scenes your institution has published here. Publishing a scene to the public Library is a separate, deliberate act, never a default.

Where it lives

One address, one door.

Composer is its own app, at composer.spontar.com — reachable from Backstage in one click, and directly whenever a scene idea arrives before the coffee does. The same sign-in works for both, and Composer itself is in English, German and French.

See it with your own material.

Bring a script or an exercise you already teach to the demo, and we will turn it into a scene together.

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