1. DRAMATIC STRUCTURE

2. “Everything’s been said.” • “Every story’s been told.” • “Human experience is finite.”

3. Viktor Shklovsky “It’s all been done. What’s the point?” not a direct quote “Art as Technique” • Make the familiar seem strange • Break the reader from automatic response • See the world again as if for the first time • “defamiliarization” (Russia)

4. Bertolt Brecht • Alienate the audience • Expose the apparatus • Direct audience address • Placards instead of sets • Expose lights and sound sources • Sing songs • Drink and argue (Germany)

5. Aristotle Poetics • Thought • Music • Plot • Character • Language • Spectacle (Greece)

6. Dramatic Structure

7. 1. Plot a sequence of events used to tell a story. • Linear (moves forward in real time, continuous, cause and effect) • Associative (moves forward in time with jumps in time and place) • Cyclical (plot begins and ends at the same point) • Repetitive (scenes or sequences are repeated with slight variations) • Conventional (genre plot, like a mystery, sci-fi, western, romance) • Fragmented (time and space are compressed and incongruent) Plot | Character | Language | Spectacle

8. 2. Character generic----------------------------individual (function over psychology) (psychology over function) Plot | Character | Language | Spectacle

9. 3. Language original speech-----------------wounded speech • Alienated from language • Can’t express themselves • Clichés, Jargon, Profanity • Repetitive speech patterns • Programmed speech • Incredibly articulate • Express feelings • Complex thoughts • Creative or poetic • Master of speech Plot | Character | Language | Spectacle

10. 4. Spectacleall non-verbal performance elements. • Set Design • Sound Design • Lighting Design • Cite-Specific Performance Space • Non-Traditional Casting • Stylized Movement Plot | Character | Language | Spectacle

11. Noh Drama (Japan)

12. Wooster Group (US)

13. Richard Foreman (US)

14. Dramatic Structure