* 2007

* 2008 --

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2003-2004 *

Theatre Dictionary I:

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Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present Walter Levy, Pace University ISBN: 0-13-226721-7 Prentice Hall Paper; 985 pp Published: 10/21/1998 [ advertising space : webmaster ]

POMO:

ShowCases: 3 Sisters, Mikado, 12th Night, Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dangerous Liaisons, Don Juan
prof. Anatoly Antohin Theatre UAF AK 99775 USA (907)474-7751

2003 Modern Drama (textbook): This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama.

* The Compact Bedford Intro to Drama (textbook) *

THR215 DramLit

SHOWS: 12th Night

* GODOT'06

2005 & After From Modernism to POMO (Postmodernity (also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century life.) [ see Part III. Theory ]

Summary

THR413 asks even more than THR215 DramLit for contextual cultural analysis: study of plays within the cultural frames -- literature, philosophy, art, politics and economics... 200 Words Post (after reading each play):

Paragraph 1: Plot Summary -- Describe in one paragraph the storyline of the play (six or seven sentences).

Paragraph 2: Theme(s) (Meaning or premise) -- What is the playwright saying to us? What is the point of the story or plot? What comment is the writer making about society? Support your theme statement from an action, dialogue or scene from the play.

Paragraph 3: Form -- tragedy, comedy, melodrama, or tragicomedy? Why you believe it is a particular type of play by using examples from the play (refer to definitions in texts to justify your selections).

Paragraph 4: Conclusion -- Discuss the play's universality. Will it withstand time? 100, 1000 years? Why? Personal Opinion (Summary).

Questions

2005: Total Acting & Total Directing *

Notes

I still don't know who will be a narrator in THR215 DramLit (Aristotle? Shakespeare?), but in THR413 Playscript Analysis I would like to have Anton Chekhov... or Beckett?

2005 & After

We defined "stageplay" as a story presented directly by actors upon a stage before an audience. And we defined "playscript" as the written dialogue and stage directions used in creating a stageplay. With an eye to both of these definitions, we might say that a playscript is a story devised or adapted by a playwright for presentation upon a stage to an audience.

Three (four) directions: Theatre Theory directory, Plays (online), SHOWS and THR215 Dramatic Literature class...

Of course, I will be directing Pinter in the fall (2006) and therefore I will be working on "vTheatre: postmodern project" -- Pinter + Mamet.

Watch the new page.

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anatoly.vtheatre.net/dramaturg
anatoly.vtheatre.net/playwright

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script.vtheatre.net -- main URL; script.vtheatre.net/413 -- this directory.

script.vtheatre.net/413/1 -- Part I. Craft script.vtheatre.net/413/2 -- Part II. Art script.vtheatre.net/413/3 -- Part III. Theory script.vtheatre.net/413/4 -- Part IV. Writing

Playscript Analysis

I keep working on this directory; the main directory script.vtheatre.net is for your use.

Fall 2003: a few changes (a lot). Do you see the addresses above? I am trying to build the vertical hierarchy (subdirectories).
First, start with the Spectator, Actor, Director as a Playwright (Book of Spectator).
Move as much as possible drama analysis from acting and directing webpages.
"Playwright stems from an ancient Saxon word, wyrhta, meaning a worker or craftsman. Drama derives from the Greek word, drao, which means "to do" or "to act." A drama depicts human actions in story form, performed by actors, singers, dancers, or mimes. Aristotle, in The Poetics, defined the major elements of drama as plot, character, thought, diction, music, and spectacle." [ from Anthology of Drama and Theatre ]
" If actors were the theater's first artists, playwrights were its first "stars," at least in classical Greece, where the winning dramatist at the theater festivals was accorded honors normally reserved only for state leaders and generals. George Bernard Shaw defined the intellectual function of the playwright, arguing that the writer must "pick out the significant incidents from the chaos of daily happenings, and arrange them so their relation to one another becomes significant, thus changing us from bewildered spectators of a monstrous confusion to men intelligently conscious of the world and its destinies. This is the highest function that man can perform."" [ from "From Page to Stage" ]
script.vtheatre.net/215/5 : playwrighting * write * wrong * wright * rules * anatoly.vtheatre.net/playwright "AMONG THE ARTS, DRAMA--combining theater art and dramatic literature --is peculiarly dynamic. In a very real sense a play is a process rather than a thing. It takes a lot of steps for a dramatic idea to travel from the imagination and mind of the playwright all the way to the mind and imagination of the playgoer or the playreader." [Preface to Drama: An Introduction to Dramatic Literature and Theater Art by Charles W. Cooper; Ronald Press, 1955]

2004 & After

projects:

texts:

in focus:

Metaphor and Theme Analysis

reading:

Links

* Forum dramlit * subscribe!

Chekhov, Ibsen, Shakespeare

play writing amazon list *

Must Read: Theatre:

PS

NB

"Keep in mind that the writers we call eternal or simply good, the writers who intoxicate us, have one highly important trait in common. They are moving towards something definite and beckon you to follow, and you feel with you entire being, not only with your mind, that they have certain goal, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, which had a motive for coming and stirring Hamlet's imagination. Dependinn their caliber, some have immediate goals -- the abolition of selfdom, the liberation of one's country, politics, beauty, or simply vodka... -- while the goals of others are more remote -- God, life after death, the happiness of mankind, etc. The best of them are realistic and describe life as it is, but because each line is saturated with the consciousness of its goal, you feel life as it should be in addition to life as it is, and you captivated by it. But what about us? Us! We describe life as it is and stop dead right there. We wouldn't lift a hoof if you lit into us with a whip. We have neither immidiate nor remote goals, and there is an emptyness in our souls. We have no politics, we don't believe in revolution, there is no God, we're not afraid of ghosts, and I personally am not even afraid of death or blindness. If you want nothing, hope for nothing, and fear nothing, you cannot be an artist." Chekhov, November 25, 1892

Writing assignments: 200 words post after reading each play. Midterm (Outline, 1st Draft, Final), Final (and/or the Scene -- the same three stages or rewrites), tests.

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