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27.2 How to read a play
Sabrina Gonzalez
Created on March 19, 2023
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Objective:
MAR '23
Lesson 2
How to read a play
Quarter 4
Determine a theme of a text and analyze its development, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot.Read and comprehend dramas.
Bellwork
Answer the following assignment on Schoology:27.2 BW Plays
The Diary of Anne Frank
How to read a play
Elements of a play (or drama): Dialogue, Stage Directions, Scenes (like chapters) within Acts. All stage directions, dialogue, and setting contribute to an understanding of events. Analyzing these elements of a play will help students picture the events being described
You must keep track of:• Stage Directions. Characters move. Keep track of where they currently are in the set/stage. • Characters & their dialogue. Their individual characteristics as well as their relationship to one another. Even minor characters. • The main themes.• Props: sometimes they’re as important as the characters themselves. • Narrative arc within each scene.• Overall plot structure! Is it a three-act structure? Two-act structure? Why?
How to read a play
Top of the Play
What can you interpret from the start of the play?Think Setting, Plot, Character Personalities
Things to notice and Imagine:
- The environment. The ‘where’, the ‘when’. Indoors or outdoors? Is it DAY or NIGHT?
- The stage.
- Characters following their stage directions. Interaction with props.
- Lighting, in some cases. If indicated.
- Lighting conveys the mood of the scene or play in general.
- A happy moment will probably have more light in the scene
- What about a moment of suspense, sadness, inner character turmoil or mystery?
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Some distinct sets for the play
Classwork
Answer 27.2 CW Act I Vocabulary on Schoology