Drama

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Drama comes from the Greek word:

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Dran - meaning “to do”

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The earliest known plays were written:

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around 5th BC

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Produced for festivals to honor the Greek God of Win and Fertility

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Dionysus

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Drama

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a story enacted onstage for a live audience

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The plot of a play

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involves characters who face a problem or a conflict

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Exposition

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characters and conflict are introduced

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Complications

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tension builds

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Climax

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highest point of action; action determines the conflict and resolution

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Conflict is a struggle between

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• characters who want different or the same things
• a character and their circumstances
• within a character who is torn by competing desires

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Tragedy

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a play that ends unhappily

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Greek tragedies

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right and wrong
justice and injustice
life and death

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Tragedies pit human limitation against

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the larger forces of destiny

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The protagonist of most classical tragedies is a

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tragic hero

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The hero

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is noble and in many ways admirable
and has a tragic flaw or opersonal failing that leads to a tragic ending

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Compedy

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a play that ends happily that centers on a romantic conflict

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The main characters in a comedy could by anyone

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nobility, townspeople, servants

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theater artists include

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actors, directors, lighting technicians, stage crew

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Thrust stage

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extends into the viewing area - audience surrounds the stage on three sides

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In the Round Stage

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surrounded by audience on all sides

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Proscenium Staage

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playing area extends behind an opening called a proscenium arch - the audience sits on one side looking into the action

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Stages in Shakespeare’s time were

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thrust stages

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scene design consists of

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sets
lighting
costumes
props

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a stages set might be

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realistic and detailed
or
abstract and minimal

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a lighting gdirector

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skillfully uses light to change the mood and appearance of the set

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dialouge

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conversations of characters onstage

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monologue

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long speech given by one character to others

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asides

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remarks made to the audience or to one character; the other characters onstage do not hear an aside

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soliliquy

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speech by a character along onstage to the self or the audeince