Experimental Structures
Play Types
Play History
Ingredients of Plays
Multi Scene Play
100

Disrupted time describes a time structure of a play that moves in what direction?

What is nonlinear/backwards & forwards?
100

A type of play that is the most common and conventional. "Macbeth" is an example.

What is the three-act play?

100
The philosopher who theorized the most important part of the play is the plot

Who is Aristotle?

100

There are this many dimensions of playwriting

4

100

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?

200

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?

200

This type of play was used in ancient China and by famous playwright Chekhov.

What is the four act play?

200

This type of play originated in the 19th century.

What is the 3 act play?

200

The 3 ingredients of structure

What is Time, Place, Story

200

In this type of play, every scene is in a new place.

What is a panorama play?

300

In a minimalist play, these types of moments are cut out.

What are dramatic moments?

300

The three reasons 3 act plays are so successful

What are easy to write, flexibility, depth?

300

This type of play is associated with a long standing Chinese scene called the "wedge"

What is the 4 act play?

300

The three ingredients of story, which can be shown using story mapping.

What is conflict, focus, and reversal?

300

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?

400

Inundation refers to doing this to the audience

What is purposefully overloading with information?

400

Home, away, home, refers to this structure involving 2 letters.

What is the A-B-A structure?

400

One of the most famous playwrights, responsible for "Three Sisters" and "The Seagull"

Who is Chekhov?
400

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?

400

In this type of multi scene play, there is one long scene with shorter scenes before it.

What is a dominating scene?

500

A play in the structure of a funeral is using this type of experimental structure.

What is appropriation?

500

The act in a 4 act play that contains the most intense moment.

What is the third act?

500

The most recently added form of plays in human history.

What is cinema?

500

Another way to refer to plays that do not contain song and dance

What is a straight play?

500

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?