Key-words:

DRAMA (Tragedy, Comedy, Pharse)  litterary genre coinceived to be performed

1. A play for acting on stage, radio, etc., esp. One with hight emotional content.
2. The dramatic art; the composition and presentation of plays

THEATRE  the location where the play is performed, it can be a building or an open space

PLAY  both text and performance
a) PLOT : series of sequential actions (facts and events)
b) STORYLINE: plot in action
c) SCENE: tool of the play, where time of the plot coincides with the time of the storyline

CHARACTERS
PLAYWRIGHTER  writer of plays
DIRECTOR  he who guides the actors
PERFORMANCE/RAPPRESENTATION  acted play
AUDIENCE
STAGE  where the play is performed
STAGE-DIRECTIONS  playwright's instructions for the director
SCENERY
THEME  result of the use of peculiar/different languages by the characters

Questions:

• What has Drama in common with poetry?
- It stears emotions, it interacts with the reader/audience
• What is special of Drama?
- It has a dynamic language, it is written to be performed so it have its own tools

Features of Drama

1) Stage directions (they tell the director how to perform)
2) Scenery
3) Sets
4) Lighting
5) Aside (comment made by a character for the audience only)

Playwright's tools

1) Dialogue (interaction of two or more characters)
2) Monolog ( speeches made by a character to other characters wich doesn't reply)
3) Soliloquies ( speeches made by a character when alone, or regardless of any hearers, on the stage)

Play structure

• One act plays (popular in contemporary drama)
• A play is organized into acts
• Acts are composed by scenes

Tools of the play (performance) wich are not mutual exclusive

• Body language (gesture,
• Costums
• Sets
• Music
• Makeup

Glossary

- floor
- stage
- to set-set-set
- to stear attention
- curtain
- to quote/ quotation
- to perform
- to explore the play