Experimental Structures
Disrupted time describes a time structure of a play that moves in what direction?
A type of play that is the most common and conventional. "Macbeth" is an example.
What is the three-act play?
Who is Aristotle?
There are this many dimensions of playwriting
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A play with an upstairs set and a downstairs set is an example of this type of multi scene play.
What is a two set play?
A play in which we witness several people in multiple countries all watching an asteroid hit would have this type of time/place structure?
What is simultaneous place?
This type of play was used in ancient China and by famous playwright Chekhov.
What is the four act play?
This type of play originated in the 19th century.
What is the 3 act play?
The 3 ingredients of structure
What is Time, Place, Story
In this type of play, every scene is in a new place.
What is a panorama play?
In a minimalist play, these types of moments are cut out.
What are dramatic moments?
The three reasons 3 act plays are so successful
What are easy to write, flexibility, depth?
This type of play is associated with a long standing Chinese scene called the "wedge"
What is the 4 act play?
The three ingredients of story, which can be shown using story mapping.
What is conflict, focus, and reversal?
A murder mystery play taking place in multiple rooms we come back to is considered this type of multi scene play.
What is recurring settings?
Inundation refers to doing this to the audience
What is purposefully overloading with information?
Home, away, home, refers to this structure involving 2 letters.
What is the A-B-A structure?
One of the most famous playwrights, responsible for "Three Sisters" and "The Seagull"
The thing that happens at the beginning of the play that tells us what the story will be about, without which there is no story.
What is the inciting incident?
In this type of multi scene play, there is one long scene with shorter scenes before it.
What is a dominating scene?
A play in the structure of a funeral is using this type of experimental structure.
What is appropriation?
The act in a 4 act play that contains the most intense moment.
What is the third act?
The most recently added form of plays in human history.
What is cinema?
Another way to refer to plays that do not contain song and dance
What is a straight play?
With multi scene plays, it is important to remember that the more scenes you have, the easier the play is to write, but the harder it is to have this.
What is emotional intensity?