The Purpose of Drama
According to Mamet, The Purpose of Drama is to define this.
What is the Clan.
Mamet believes that there are no rules, there is only one law. What is the law?
What is don’t be boring.
In Drama, a plot is an exercise in __________.
What is cause and effect.
Fairytales work because we don’t __________ the hero/heroine.
What is Characterize.
According to Mamet, you should draw language from those who ________.
What is do it naturally.
Good drama doesn’t _________.
What is teach.
Mamet says that the audience has to know what story you're telling so that they can be ________.
What is misled.
Every plot/story must begin with this.
What is a precipitating event. (Would accept inciting event)
Stanislavski says this is the most interesting thing in the world.
What is “watching a man get a knot out of his shoelace.’
Mamet says that if you narrate to the audience, they might understand but they won’t ______.
What is care.
Myth is a poetic statement of unverifiable reality. Myth is not ________, it’s just unverifiable.
What is false.
Aristotle says that there have to be the "unities" of these three things.
What are time, place & action.
According to Mamet, the second act must end in this.
What is a confessional.
Aristotle says that Character is just ________.
What is habitual action.
According to Mamet, what is usually true of obligatory scenes?
What is they don’t belong/must be cut.
The Purpose of Drama is not to investigate reason, but to do this.
What is free us from reason.
According to Aristotle, our hero has to undergo these two things.
What are recognition and reversal of the situation.
The Hero Myth doesn’t exist as a creation, it exists as an expression of this.
What is our understanding of life.
According to Mamet, to manipulate a character is an attempt to ____________.
What is manipulate the audience.
Name one of the three questions you have to answer in a scene.
1. Who wants what from who?
2. What happens when they don’t get it?
3. Why now?