Week 3
Class Notes:
Analysing drama
- Information flows
- Overall structure
- Space
- Time
- Characters
- Types of utterance in drama
- Types of stage
- Dramatic sub-genres
Exposition
- Who?
- What?
- Where?
- When?
- Why?
Transmission of information
- Narrator?
- Informant?
- Chorus?
Perspective
- Reliability?
- Whose?
Dramatic Irony
- What do the audience know that the characters don’t know?
- What effect does not know what is going to happen have on an audience?
Story and Plot
- Story – Assumed chronological sequence of events
- Plot- the way events are casually and logically connected through a sequence of scenes
- Plot-lines – a play may have several, elaborating parts of the story
- Linear or Non-linear plots
- Closed forms – the individual acts are tightly connected and logically built on one another, finally leading to a clear resolution of the plot
- Open forms – scenes only loosely hang together and are even exchangeable at times; the ending does not really bring about any conclusive solution or result
Classical Tragic structure
- Order of events
o Prologue
o Parados
o Episode
o Stasimon
o Episode
o Stasimon
o Exodos
- Late point of attack
o Use of messengers
- Usually continuous
My Thoughts:
Post-dramatic theatre is something that I find very interesting, I love the avant-guard and with the current trajectory of how theatre is going the new era of avant-guard is highly fascinating. Having a multitude of questions such as in exposition, transmission of information and perspective allows for there to be a much more expansive field of performance, furthermore it gives opportunities for ideas such as asking the audience meta-questions, i.e. Not wanting to feel uncomfortable whilst watching the piece yet questioning why you don't want to say feeling. these depths of ideas make for post-dramatic theatre an interesting idea. In addition to this the multiple ways in which theatre is being portrayed I expanding, with new ways in which pieces are being put on constantly coming up. The classical way for theatre to be put on is vire proscenium arch stage and naturalistic acting is now no longer the main attraction to performance, but the more unusual performance style and the piece is what draws people to the performance.
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