Script:
is
a plan that tells you how the performance should look and sound.
-For a play it is written by a playwright and is quite detailed.
-For other kinds it can be less detailed like an outline developed for a mime.
Each script has 3 types of
writing:
1- Dialogue- words spoken, technically by 2 or more characters. It is always printed in normal typeface.[A character’s single speech is called Line]
2- Character- imaginary person that speaks the dialogue. His name is always in capital and is at the beginning of the line.
3- Stage direction- instruction about unspoken things to be done. It’s in italics and inside parentheses to make the reader tell the difference.
1- In a Playwright, it is harder to understand, because it only gives hints in the stage directions, while stories use dialogue to make people real.
2- It is not always true in a playwright. This is because almost all the information is given in the dialogue with means that people/characters often lie.
Reading between the lines: people do this in playwrights to get the idea of what it is about. There are 2 ways o do this but the second way is discussed in the next chapter.
Plot: -It is a series of events that are part of a dramatic action.
-Also, it is asking you “what happens?”
-It is a sequence of scenes.
2
types of scenes:
1- Happens in one place, in one continuous time.
2- Normally happens in France so called a “French scene” and it depends on a character leaving and another/ or the same, entering.
3
characteristics of Actions:
1- Complete- the audience can understand it if they watched it all
2- Simple- they can understand it in one view. But complex enough to grab our attention
3- Special events- events that are connected together with something other than time. [Plot]
Characters: the imaginary person that carry out the actions of the play.
2 aspects of characters:
1- “Who does it”
2- “What is each character like?”
Conflict: this is what the dramatic action revolves around; it is the obstacle that denies the characters what they want to do/say. Ask yourself whom it is between.
Setting: - Imaginary time and place I n which the action occurs
- It is the specific scenery on stage in every scene.