TH 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neil Labute, List Of The Price Is Right Pricing Games, Fat Pig
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Playwright"s tools: dialogue, action and conflict, structure. Well- made/ climactic = 99. 9% of plays: eugene scribe and vincent sardou france late 1800s. Episodic structure: take place over a long time period, tons of characters (hard to find a protagonist, multiple locations. Circular structure: myth of sisyphus, it ends where it begins but with an effected ending. Serial structure: series of scenes / sketches / songs connected by a common theme. Film produced in 1997: bash: the latter day plays. Loosely based on 3 greek stories / murders: autobatin. Play 2004 with mcc: his trilogy about appearances and looks they all have four people, multiple sets, and are modern tragedies. Reasons to be pretty 2008: mercy seat. The shape of things: opened in london in 2001 at the almeida theater (bus station, no curtain call, the theme/ meaning is: what is art, adam and eve(lyn) Fall of man/ loss of innocence story.
