This morning, please revise and submit your revised script to our Google classroom for a class workshop/revision session. We'll continue this Wednesday and Friday as well.
When revising:
1. Do a global review of your script.
2. Focus on one character at a time.
3. Review story arc & structure.
4. Focus on one scene at a time.
5. Review grammar/mechanics/formatting.
6. Do another global review of your script.
When workshopping:
1. Examine play in a global way.
2. Consider character development & details. Do they add to the overall structure of the play?
3. Examine story arc/structure of the plot: inciting incident, rising action, conflict, complications, turning point, climax, falling action, resolution, etc.
4. Do scenes or beats add or detract from the business and meaning of the play?
5. Does the play have a meaning or message that you can identify?
6. Do you notice mistakes or weak points in the script? Point these out. You don't have to provide an answer to these problems--that's for the writer to own.
Your final exam for Playwriting is Wednesday, Jan. 16. See previous posts for details about what may be covered on your exam. It is a good idea to study your play analysis notes, review vocabulary & theatrical terms, review handouts and scripts and look back over this year's course on our blog (starting in September 2018).
Depending on what's happening in class (if there are scripts to review by 2nd period or not), I may introduce to you the "father of modern drama": Henrik Ibsen.
Details About the Father of Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen
What Happened After Shakespeare (crash course #17)
Zola, France, Realism & Naturalism (crash course #31)
Symbolism, Realism, & a Nordic Playwright (crash course #33)
HOMEWORK: Revise your play drafts; study for your final exam.
When revising:
1. Do a global review of your script.
2. Focus on one character at a time.
3. Review story arc & structure.
4. Focus on one scene at a time.
5. Review grammar/mechanics/formatting.
6. Do another global review of your script.
When workshopping:
1. Examine play in a global way.
2. Consider character development & details. Do they add to the overall structure of the play?
3. Examine story arc/structure of the plot: inciting incident, rising action, conflict, complications, turning point, climax, falling action, resolution, etc.
4. Do scenes or beats add or detract from the business and meaning of the play?
5. Does the play have a meaning or message that you can identify?
6. Do you notice mistakes or weak points in the script? Point these out. You don't have to provide an answer to these problems--that's for the writer to own.
Your final exam for Playwriting is Wednesday, Jan. 16. See previous posts for details about what may be covered on your exam. It is a good idea to study your play analysis notes, review vocabulary & theatrical terms, review handouts and scripts and look back over this year's course on our blog (starting in September 2018).
Depending on what's happening in class (if there are scripts to review by 2nd period or not), I may introduce to you the "father of modern drama": Henrik Ibsen.
Details About the Father of Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen
A major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet, Henrik Ibsen is often referred to as "the godfather" of modern drama and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His works started out as romantic, moved into and through realism and ended up naturalistic (see Naturalism below) and symbolic (symbolism).
To understand Naturalism, it is important to know that it was a reaction against the two literary periods that came before it. These are:
To understand Naturalism, it is important to know that it was a reaction against the two literary periods that came before it. These are:
Romanticism (1798-1832/1850): Reaction against reason and the Neoclassical/Enlightenment periods, it celebrated nature, spontaneity, imagination, the supernatural and subjectivity. The ode comes back into favor. As well as women writers. Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, various poets: Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, etc. How lovely!
Realism (1830-1900): The period of literature that attempts to portray life honestly, without sensationalism, exaggeration, or melodrama. Characters and plots are taken largely from middle-class for middle-class readers. Ordinary contemporary life. Dickens is probably the best example of this, although he did tend to be a bit Romantic (Christmas Carol, for example...)
Naturalism (1865-1900) attempts to go further from realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment affects human behavior. Plots often revolve around social problems, characters are often drawn from lower classes and the poor, perhaps in an attempt to explain their behavior.
What Happened After Shakespeare (crash course #17)
Zola, France, Realism & Naturalism (crash course #31)
Symbolism, Realism, & a Nordic Playwright (crash course #33)
HOMEWORK: Revise your play drafts; study for your final exam.
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