[MIDTERM] Playwriting

Question 1

These are vital in sequencing or separating the narration or story into manageable parts for the audience, the actors, and the people working behind the performance.

Answer 1

Acts and scenes

Question 2

It consists of several scenes and can run for a long length in a performance. It is the main tool to separate the whole performance with intervals (intermissions). It can be separated by the number of scenes.

Answer 2

Act

Question 3

It features a brief situation of action and dialogie. It cannot be divided but can only move on to another scene where the action or the flow of the story continues.

Answer 3

Scene

Question 4

The first act is called ____.

Answer 4

Protasis (exposition)

Question 5

The second act is called ____.

Answer 5

Epitasis (complication)

Question 6

The final act is the ____.

Answer 6

Catastrophe (resolution)

Question 7

What are the types of play?

Answer 7

• Ten-minute plays
• One-act plays
• Full-length plays
• Musicals

Question 8

• It is not a sketch or an extended gag, but rather a complete, compact play, with a beggining, middle and end.
• It typically takes place in one scene and runs no more than ten pages.

Answer 8

10-minute plays

Question 9

• It can run anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour or more (popular, half hour).
• It’s more commonly thought of as a play that isn’t long enough to constitute a full evening.

Answer 9

One-act plays
( one main action/problem; no time for complicated layers of plot)

Question 10

It is also called evening-length plays because they are long enough to be their own evening.

Answer 10

Full-length plays
(70-80 mins and up)

Question 11

They can run the gamut in length from 10 minutes to 3 hours.

Answer 11

Musicals (90 mins-2 hrs)

Question 12

What are the rules when it comes to the page layout?

Answer 12

• 8.5” by 11” paper (3 hole punch)
• Top and bottom margins are 1”, also right margin
• Left margin (where the binding is) is 1.5”
• Page numbering is on PAGE 2 (upper right hand corner)
• No number on Cast Page

Question 13

What is the rule for the Title Page Element?

Answer 13

• Vertically centered on the page. Page title ALL CAPS, below is your name.

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Question 14

This is the readers’ and potential producer or director’s reference page.

Answer 14

Cast Page Element

Question 15

What should be the included in the Cast Page Element?

Answer 15

• Characters’ age, gender, and anything else essential for casting
  (if the description wraps onto a second line, use a .5” hanging indent)