Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction

من طرف **Master** الأحد نوفمبر 07, 2010 5:21 pm

Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction,,

The Meaning of Theatre

The Place where the play happens
Theatre is a shared experience. Sharing occurs between:
Actor-Audience
Actor-Critic
Critic-Audience
Artist-Artist

What’s in a Play?
A Play is a structured event performed before an audience.
It has a:
Beginning - nothing necessary before it, something must necessarily follow.
Middle - something must necessarily precede and follow it.
(Middle is composed of complications - any new element that changes the direction of the action)
End - naturally follows the middle, but needs nothing to follow it.

Important elements

A. Dramatic Action –change in human relationships is the basis for the plot
B. Protagonist – the person whose will sustains the dramatic action
C. Antagonist – the person(s) or forces that oppose the protagonist

Elements of a Play

Plot – implementation of moral choice becomes dramatic action of the play
Character – moral stances/choices of characters
Thought – all thoughts of characters (not theme, as Sporre wrongly suggests)
Diction – all words
Music – all auditory aspects
Spectacle – all visual aspects

Setting: the place: where the actions take place on the stage.(The Stage)

Time: the time of the actions on the stage.

Common Theatrical Genres

a. Theatrical Tragedy - celebrates the human capacity to accomplish and endure.
b. Tragicomedy – used to be tragedies that ended happily; now the prevailing tone is a mixture or co-existance of comedy and seriousness,
c. Comedy – attempts to correct the follies of society by holding them up to ridicule
d. Melodrama – dramatizes the basic struggle between good and evil
More than just overwrought 19th C acting

من طرف **سعد الدهيمي** الخميس فبراير 24, 2011 4:11 am

Thank you

من طرف **Master** الأربعاء مارس 30, 2011 3:49 pm

welcome

Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction

Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction

رد: Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction

رد: Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction