VPDA11H3 Chapter Notes -Birds Eye View, Hamartia, Melodrama
7 Dec 2012
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Drama is written down, it becomes theatre when its produced. Only the script keeps a play alive and allow others to rediscover it. Scripts with less stage direction are harder to imagine what past live productions may have been like. Drama is not theatre, but we need drama to produce theatre. The elements of drama four things needed for theatre . Aristotle, one of the first theatre scholars, outlines the various elements of script (particularly in tragedies) in poetics plot, character, theme, dictation, music, and spectacle. Plot is more then the story, it includes . 2 what happens physically and emotionally to the characters. Even if other elements are emphasized over plot, something does happen in most plays. Plots can come together through a character making a vital decision, a coincident, physical action, or subtle action. Some plays (absurdist) have no story at all yet still have a plot because something happens.
