Our class is not meeting again until Friday, Oct. 16. Please read "You Can't Take It With You."
Additionally, the test will cover the following:
The plays: For Colored Girls...Rainbow is Enuf (Nzotake Shange)
Monster (Dael Orlandersmith)
Talking With (Jane Martin)
Psycho Beach Party; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; Lady in Question; Red Scare on Sunset (Charles Busch)
You Can't Take It With You (Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman)
Play Vocabulary:
Premise
Types of comedy: Sentimental comedy; romantic comedy; farce; satire; black/dark comedy; absurdist comedy
Aristotle's six elements of plays: plot, character, diction (dialogue), thought (theme), spectacle, song/music
Conflict (pg. 58)
Truth (pg. 58)
Structural Unity (pg. 60)
Inciting Incident (pg. 65. pg. 66)
Major Dramatic Question (MDQ) (pg. 64-65, pg. 68)
Major decision (pg. 65/pg. 66-67)
The event (pg. 65)
The three C's: Conflict, crisis, complication (pg. 68-69)
Rising Action (pg. 69-70)
The dark moment/crisis (pg. 70)
Deus ex machina (Pg. 71)
Enlightenment (pg. 71)
Climax (pg. 72)
Catharsis (pg. 72-73)
Ten minute play format
One act plays
Monologues/Soliloquies
Cross-dressing and theatrical tradition
Beach films
Generating ideas for plays
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