Stage Directing Book- Step 2 Flashcards
Playscript’s Meaning
Intellectual effect on audience
- ethical, political, social values
- insight in human psychology
- judgement or compassion of the work
Emotional Impact
Emotions the Playscript makes the audience and actors feel
Playscript’s Personality
The authors unique manner of expression.
Cause and Effect Structure
One incident leads logically and linearly to the next.
Playwrights Ideas Structure
One idea is linked somehow to the ideas that follow.
Episodic in Structure
Episodes are interspersed with song and direct address.
- not chronologically arranged nor are the linear
- seem to be held together by the internal life of the control character
Interpersonal Conflicts
Conflicts between two characters
Ideological conflicts
Pitting an individual against some external force such as government or law.
Characters personal involvement will create external force
Given circumstances
Basic situation Introducing characters Back story Establishing conflict that becomes heart of action Specific time/place Social class; age; sex Mood/atmosphere
The Who?
The personal history of the characters and their relationships with one another
Protagonist
Antagonist
The When?
Time, date, month and year
The elapsed time of the play’s sections
The Where?
- Physical place of the action
- Reflects social and economic background of characters
- Geographical locale
- Exact room of action
The What?
The major conflict that will become the heart of the play
Inciting incident
The event that initiates the conflict
Unit
Number of beats forming a larger group
Action Unit
An individual and separate section of a play that comprises one part of the dramatic action.
Action traits
What a character does
Personality traits
What qualities the character embodies
Functional traits
How the character operates in the world of the play
Super objective
Each major characters one overriding want or need
Core statement
A map for the production
