Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction
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Theater, play,plot,character,thoughts,Diction
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
سعد الدهيمي- عضو مميز
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تاريخ التسجيل : 07/12/2010
الموقع : منتديات الأدب واللغة الانجليزية
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