Dramaturgy Basics
The theory and practice of dramatic composition and theatrical representation .
Dramaturgy
This is was adjudicator is also known as.
Critic
Mistakes in roles, scripts, costumes, and sets.
Breaches
The circumstances as the play begins.
Given Circumstances
What the character does/is trying to do.
Action
A literary editor/researcher on the staff of a theater who consults with authors and edits texts.
Dramaturge
Reviews the show, lets potential audiences know if show is worthwhile, or if it works on its own terms; answers the question is the show worth the ticket price.
Adjudicator
The positioning and movement of the actors.
Blocking
the way the actor looks to the audience; especially those items that indicate the performer's social status.
Appearance
What the character says; the way the character says things, for example, dialect, phrasing in poetic form or prose.
Speech
Creates study guides for young audiences in order to prepare them for seeing the play.
Outreach Dramaturge
Read new plays, working w/ playwright to fully develop plays, helps select a theatre's season of plays, involved in preparation of translated plays.
Literary Manager
Elements outside of the play, such as the location and time where it is being written and formed.
Context
The context in which the performance takes place, including location, decor, and props.
Region
Is considered the father of modern dramaturgy. Coined the term “dramaturgy.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Helps develop and articulate a show's vision through research of text and previous reviews.
Production Dramaturge
The story that happened before plot begins.
Background Story
the arrangements of actors onstage to communicate character relationships.
Stage Picture
the degree to which individuals separate themselves from the role they're in, it is a function of one's social status.
Role Distance
Written by Aristotle (ancient Greek scholar), is the earliest surviving Western work of dramatic theory.
The Poetics
Discriminating, often scholarly, interpretation and analysis of the play.
Dramatic Criticism
Everyday Interactions/ behaviors comparative to a theatrical performances.
Dramaturgy Theory
Dramaturgical perspective, the setting or scene or performances that helps establish the definition of the situation.
Front
The analyzed works in German theatre written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
The Hamburg Dramaturgy (Hamburgische Dramaturgie).
Probably the earliest non-Western dramaturgic work. Written about 100 AD;
Natayasatra ('The Art of Theatre')