Aristotle's 6 Elements
What happens rather than what it means (events in a play)
Plot
Characteristics that makeup personality such as family circumstances, environment, occupation, level of education, interests, and so on.
Internal Traits
The stage area CLOSEST to the audience
Downstage
Multiple events, conflicts, and crises in the story that leads to the climax that provides a growing intensity.
Rising Action
The audience sits on one side, picture frame
Proscenium Stage
What the play means as opposed to what happens
Theme
The specific reason why someone does something
Motivation
The stage are FARTHEST from the audience
Upstage
The turning point of the story.
“Highest point”
Climax
The Actor's 3 Tools
Body, Voice, and Mind
These are the people presented in the play that are involved in the pursuing plot.
Characters
A goal or want
Objective
Stage areas based on this perspective/point of view
Actor's
Wrapping up loose ends of the narrative
Resolution
These traits have to do with outward appearance and what that appearance says about them.
External Traits
All of the aspects of scenery, costumes, and special effects in production.
Spectacle
A challenge that a character faces and stops them from achieving what they want
Obstacle
Rehearsal focused on integrating the lights, sound, set, projections and any special effects
Tech Rehearsal
Understanding the “world of the play”
The mood and conditions are made at the start of your story.
A setting (location) is established.
Exposition
When an actor uses memory from his or her own experience to act out a moment in a play or scene, this is called
Emotional Recall
The word choices made by the playwright and the enunciation of the actors of the language.
Diction
Different strategies used to overcome the obstacles and to obtain the objective
Tactic
The purpose of this rehearsal is for actors to practice onstage movements.
Providing the initial trigger for the main character’s behavior
Inciting Incident
Taking everything down!
Strike