Zusammenfassung der Ressource
pt experience
- playwriting
- encoding
- taking a short story and turning it into a play--short story vs theatre/drama
- added features
- sounds
- adds texture and can contribute
to a more immersive experience
- chorus
- for emphasis
- symbolise internalising of notion, idea etc
- The fact that she herself utters the words ‘who wants her?’ with reference to herself, shows that she
too, despite her veneer of contentment and happiness, knows that she has no place in this
community and acknowledges that she is not wanted.
- soundscapes
- set mood
- isabelle's play w/ japanese elements and 'mood music'
- music!
- km has themes for each set of characters to underscore certain thematic or
emotional moments
- act as motifs
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- such as choice of
theatre, use of
symbols etc
- acting
- decoding
- adaptation and interpretation
- limitations of each genre
- making the internal external
- how this can be circumvented
- use of monologue
- splitting into an internal and external manifestation of each character
- grace's group--one mining while one narrating
- helps with timeline too--this technique makes it seem like a recount and as his past catches up, it becomes one person
- public and private self
- use of screen
- costumes
- highlights focus of each scene
- “Unlike the novelist or short-story
writer, a playwright cannot depend on a
narrative voice rounding out a a
character by means of description and
analysis”
- music
- dramatic conventions
- drama as a visual art--visual elements of drama
- brechtian theatre
Anmerkungen:
- -not appeal to feelings but to intellect / reason
-capable of provoking social change
realism, not identification of role
VERFREMDUNGSEFFEKT
(distancing effect):
-prevents audience from losing themselves completely
-interrupts narrative
-disrupts stage illusion—performer can observe himself
-make obvious the fictive qualities of the medium—self aware
- styles of theatre
- naturalistic
Anmerkungen:
- -creates an illusion of reality through drama / theatre
-la nouvelle formule:
-play should be realistic, not flamboyant or theatrical
-conflicts need to be meaningful, -not small or petty
-play should be simple, no subplots/lengthy expositions
everyday speech, plausibility of writing, drama is psychologically driven and there is no breaking of the 4th wall
- tenesse williams: give accents to
certain values in each scene
- colour palette
- yad's group--internal miss brill is bright while external miss brill is drab
- isabelle’s group--johns in severe black and white,
while jane is dressed in a loose white dress and kept
barefoot—disturbing contrast between vulnerable
and powerful
- lighting
- to direct attention
- set mood
- costumes
- used to reflection position, power
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- constrast
- visual element: it's the only colourful thing
that she wears and is a parallel to her. this is
further accentuated by the fact that it sheds
in her hands when she is hurt and she treats
in it a manner similar to herselfe i.e.
powdering of nose
- styles of theatre
- dialogue
- focus
- structure
- symbols
- can be preserved
- more subtle in drama; you
have to look out for clues to get added meaning
- eg miss brill's fur
- s
- taking someone's play and staging a production
- purpose of art
- joseph conrad: inspire feelings in brotherhood
- art is more intense than life
- art as a means of working through reality
- convey a message
- focus
- sometimes the message is different
- eg. esther's vision: ensemble = insanity
but for us we decided ensemble =
patriarchy/science vs feelings
- makes use of dramatic conventions & stylistic choices
- examine a part of life
- inner and outer world
- as,gt/ miss brill and how the
inner thoughts affect actions or
action affect thoughts
- TTH: how external judgement affects
internal landscape
- audience member
- opens up message to larger themes--i.e. how
patriarchy has cages & stifled women
- The meaning of a text is not inherent within
the text itself, but is created within the
relationship between the text and the reader.