{"id":42,"date":"2008-09-03T15:57:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/play-analysis-longman\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T19:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T23:52:30","slug":"play-analysis-longman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/play-analysis-longman\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Analysis (Longman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beginning (Short Analysis):<\/strong> Three Questions<br \/>\n1.    How is this play different from actuality?<br \/>\n2.    Why is this play different in this way?<br \/>\n3.    What is this play about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final Analysis <\/strong>(Each step builds upon the preceding step.  So Step #1 builds upon the above information)<br \/>\n1.    What is this play about?  What in human nature is at the center of the play?<\/p>\n<p>2.    How does the play use its material?<\/p>\n<p>Space: confinement, isolation, representational\/presentational, fluid\/fixed\/floating, spatial tensions<br \/>\nTime: progress, segments, shifts<br \/>\nTone<br \/>\nContext<br \/>\nHow does it open to audience?<br \/>\nNature of the world of the play<br \/>\nNature of the characters of the play<br \/>\nCharacter tensions<br \/>\nIllusion\/communion<br \/>\nStructure: concentrated, confined<\/p>\n<p>3.    <strong>What is the essential tension?<\/strong><br \/>\nEncounter<br \/>\nActions: context, inciting incident<\/p>\n<p>4<strong>.    What is the driving force?<\/strong><br \/>\nResistance<br \/>\nCrisis<br \/>\nClimax<br \/>\nPolarity<\/p>\n<p>5.   <strong> Do general patterns emerge?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.    What is the effect?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat is the audience&#39;s mood at the conclusion of the play?<br \/>\nWhat are they reflecting upon?<br \/>\nWhat is their state of mind?<br \/>\nWhat was their initial impression at the beginning of the play (performance) and what is their final impression? In this a polarity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director&#39;s Chart (Example)<\/strong><br \/>\nSOURCES*<br \/>\nUnit (organic, beats, scenes)<\/p>\n<p>Effect<\/p>\n<p>Scenery\/Properties<\/p>\n<p>Costumes\/Make-up<\/p>\n<p>Sound<\/p>\n<p>Lighting<\/p>\n<p>Activity<\/p>\n<p>*SOURCES are of the &quot;effect&quot; in column #2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning (Short Analysis): Three Questions 1. How is this play different from actuality? 2. Why is this play different in this way? 3. What is this play about? Final Analysis (Each step builds upon the preceding step. So Step #1 builds upon the above information) 1. What is this play about? What in human nature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/play-analysis-longman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Play Analysis (Longman)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":420,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}