The Final Exam for Playwriting may cover the following items, please review:
The plays:
Nzotake Shange: For Colored Girls...Rainbow is Enuf
Dael Orlandersmith: Monster
Jane Martin: Talking With
Charles Busch: Psycho Beach Party; Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; Lady in Question; Red Scare on Sunset
Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman: You Can't Take It With You
Samuel Becket: Waiting for Godot, Happy Days, (Endgame)
Eugene Ionesco: Rhinoceros
The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged
William Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors
John Guare: The House of Blue Leaves
Christopher Durang: (particularly: Desire, Desire, Desire; For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Death Comes to Us All Mary Agnes, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, The Actor's Nightmare, Titanic, 'dentity Crisis, The Life and Purpose of the Universe)
Anton Chekhov: The Seagull
Robert Harling: Steel Magnolias
Lorainne Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun
Henrick Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
Play Vocabulary:
Premise
Types of comedy: Sentimental comedy; romantic comedy; farce; satire; black/dark comedy; absurdist comedy
Types of drama: Tragedy; realism;
Aristotle's six elements of plays: plot, character, diction (dialogue), thought (theme), spectacle, song/music
Conflict
Truth
Structural Unity
Inciting Incident
Major Dramatic Question (MDQ)
Major decision
The three C's: Conflict, crisis, complication
Rising Action
The dark moment/crisis
Deus ex machina
Enlightenment
Climax
Catharsis
Ten minute play format
One act plays
Full length plays (2, 3, 4, or 5 act)
Monologues/Soliloquies
Cross-dressing and theatrical tradition
Generating ideas for plays
Absurdism
Commedia dell'Arte
Farce
The Event: (a uniquely significant moment in the character's lives)
Time lock
Moliere & French scenes
Place & setting
Theme
Scenario
Sidney Poitier
Constantin Stanislavski, the Moscow Art Theatre, and Russian drama
Catalyst
Positive Motivation
Character flaw
A character's Ghost
need vs. desire
Creating credible characters
Protagonist
Antagonist
Subtext
Beat
Backstory
A Confidant
Verisimilitude
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Hey craddock this is Alicia Green.
When do you think I would be able to do the final exam, since I will be out for a while.
Alicia--just worry right now about the full length play. The exam will neither hurt nor help you. Feel better soon! We miss you.
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