THEA 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Millington Synge, Quentin Tarantino, Ernest Hemingway
18 Jun 2018
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1) Farce: a play that lets the audience vicariously experience a messed up situation and
fulfill unmentionable wishes
a) Martin McDonough: thought theater was a lame artform and wanted to write
movies. Claims he never read plays before he started writing
a.i) Wrote A Skull in Connemara
(a.i.1) Title of the play comes from a speech by Lucky in samuel
beckett’s play Waiting for Godot
a.ii) Wrote The Lieutenant of Inishmore
a.iii) While he was a teenager he was left with his brother John in England
when his parents moved back to ireland.
(a.iii.1) He was irish then he moved in england
(a.iii.2) Irish folk have dark humor
(a.iii.3) When his parents left he started watching videos
(a.iii.4) Loved Quentin Tarantino
(a.iii.5) Also influenced by John Millington Synge
(a.iii.5.a) Wrote The Playboy of the Western World
(a.iii.5.a.i) Irish guy has a daughter is at a bar and he wants to
leave to go to a funeral where there's a lot of liquor
and she doesn't want him to leave because she
thinks men are going to fuck with her then he
leaves her with a man who killed his father but he
actually didn't and then he tried to kill him again
(a.iii.5.a.ii) When it was first performed there were riots
a.iv) First film he made was six shooter
a.v) He is the king or narrative “plot”
2) Playwrights
a) Anglo-saxon word meaning “maker of”
a.i) Constructing an event
a.ii) Plays don’t come from ideas
(a.ii.1) Plays come out of personal conflicts and impulse
(a.ii.1.a) I.e. walking away from an argument remembering
the conversation and imagining what you should have said
and what they would have said
(a.ii.1.b) The word drama is a bad term
(a.ii.1.c) All rhetorical questions are accusations
(a.ii.2) Dramaturgy: the study of how plays are constructed
(a.ii.3) Put the protagonist and the audience in the same position
(a.ii.3.a) You don’t want the audience to get ahead of the
story
(a.ii.4) What does the protagonist want? Objective
(a.ii.4.a) Drama is what the protagonist wants
b) Exposition: giving a bunch of unnecessary information
b.i) Old fashioned playwriting
(b.i.1) Bad playwriting
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Document Summary
Farce: a play that lets the audience vicariously experience a messed up situation and fulfill unmentionable wishes, martin mcdonough: thought theater was a lame artform and wanted to write movies. Claims he never read plays before he started writing a. i) wrote a skull in connemara (a. i. 1) He was irish then he moved in england. When his parents left he started watching videos. Also influenced by john millington synge (a. iii. 5. a) wrote the playboy of the western world (a. iii. 5. a. i) He is the king or narrative plot : anglo-saxon word meaning maker of a. i) a. ii) Plays come out of personal conflicts and impulse (a. ii. 1. a) I. e. walking away from an argument remembering the conversation and imagining what you should have said and what they would have said (a. ii. 1. b) (a. ii. 1. c) Dramaturgy: the study of how plays are constructed. Put the protagonist and the audience in the same position (a. ii. 3. a) you don"t want the audience to get ahead of the (a. ii. 4) story.
