PLAY AND THEATER

• Plot: It refers to the order of the events that occur in the play.
• Characters: The people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in a play
• Characters form a crucial part of the story and are interwoven with the plot of the play.
• Dialogue: It refers to the conversation or interactions between the characters in the play
• The dialogue has three major functions: to advance the plot, to establish the setting, and to reveal the character.
• Setting: It refers to the time and place where a story is set
• Setting is one of the important parts of the play.
• Conflict: It refers to the challenge that the main characters need to solve to achieve their goals.
• Scene: The small section or portion of a play
• Play is a literary form of writing for theatre, which narrates a story with elements of conflicts, tensions, and actions through dialogues of characters.
• Acts: The major sections of a play.
• Playwright: A person who writes plays.
• For dramatic significance, it is divided into acts and scenes.
• The writers present their feelings, emotions, and ideas through their characters and make them speak.
• The playwright uses various dramatic elements to create more profound meanings and enhance understanding of the audience.
• Theme: It refers to the meaning of the play.
• Technical Elements of Play: Properties (Props) are the things in a theater production that bring a performance to life by providing objects for characters to interact with.
• Technical Elements of Play: Scenery (Set) is the theatrical equipment, such as curtains, flats, backdrops, or platforms, used in a dramatic production to communicate environment.
• Technical Elements of Play:Costumes are clothing and accessories worn by the actors to portray character and period.
• Technical Elements of Play:Sound effects are the effects an audience hears during performance to communicate character, context, or environment.
• Technical Elements of Play:Music is used in a theater production to create a specific mood or emotional environment through music, sound effects and volume.
• The lighting in a performance is crucial as it helps to communicate the environment, mood, or feeling.
• Theater is a building where a play is performed containing the stage and seating area for the audience.
• Stage direction is an instruction written in the script of a play that gives direction to the actors or information about the scenery.
• A historical play seeks to present a historical situation or character and maybe a comedy or tragedy.
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was both a poet and a playwright, but his greatest work was in the field of drama and his finest lyrics are those that adorn his plays.
• William Shakespeare wrote of kings and clowns, of gentlemen and heroes and of noble women, all of whose lives he seemed to know by close association.
• Shakespeare wrote 37 plays of a wonderful variety - comedies, tragedies, and historical plays.
• Shakespeare wrote two narrative poems and about 154 sonnets.
• A comedy is a drama in which the characters are placed in humorous, comic situations.
• A tragedy, on the other hand, is a drama in which the principal characters are involved in desperate circumstances or are led by some overwhelming passion which destroys them.