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"Theatre is not a mirror but a magnifying glass." Mayakovsky
[ advertising space : webmaster ] Aristotle, dead philosopher Anatoly, me Dead Playwrights (see the list on the left) Modernists and Postmodernists Live and Cyber Students Voices, Spirits, Souls, Ghosts, Ideas and so on. Place - Eternity
[Maybe I could let Chekhov to be the main guide or narrator.] Also, Film Directing has the first part on SCRIPTING. There are pages like FAQ to help you navigate this directory. I made Preface in addition to Intro page, another "support page"! For THR215 Dramatic Literature (DramLit), I will be using Shakespeare logo: Hamlet2001
The practical applications of the script analysis are in SHOWS directory, the plays I directed or want to direct.
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For THR413 Playscript Analysis -- Chekhov:  Chekhov: 3 Sisters
I am about to give up on organizing my webpages; I started them with my notes for classes, to help me to teach -- and they are those notes for myself, which I made public. I still keep them and still in this "notes" style.
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Actors and directors, in order for you to act or direct, you have to understand the mind of playwright, who began the journey long before you meet the play....
GRAMMAR of DRAMA:
THR215 Dramatic Literature --- THR413 Playscript Analysis
authors --- themes --- subjects (topics)
CRAFT ---- ART
plays --- periods --- showcases
[ vertical hierharchy ]
My task is simple: to read with you together the greatest dramatic texts. Alas, the challenge is the masterpieces' simplisity. Once (maybe twice) I taught 200X Aesthetics and struggled with the title of this course -- Aesthetics... Love for Beauty, Love of Beauty? Come on! Beauty is Love.
They say "truth" or they say "good" -- I don't know. Beautiful is all -- truth and good. Beauty is this manifistation of Love. Can you see it?
This is aim of this class -- learn how to see the beauty of drama on the page, this potentiality of the spectacle.
Hold on! But to write this appreaciation of the beautiful? It should be beautiful too? Look:OLGA: Father died just a year ago, on this very day -- the fifth of May, your name-day, Irina. It was very cold, snow was falling. I felt as though I should not live through it; you lay fainting as though you were dead. But now a year has passed and we can think of it calmly; you are already in a white dress, your face is radiant. [The clock strikes twelve.] The clock was striking then too [a pause]. I remember the band playing and the firing at the cemetery as they carried the coffin. Though he was a general in command of a brigade, yet there weren't many people there. It was raining, though. Heavy rain and snow. [ Chekhov's "3 Sisters" -- the beginning of the play. ] What do you see? What do you hear?
"It was raining, though. Heavy rain and snow." (I use different translations, sometimes my own, sometime in original). Why is it great? Look is what before -- and what is after those short lines. Next: "IRINA. Why recall it!" That's right! Why to recall it? Why do we remember? What do we remember? Oh, I jumped ahead of myself!
This directory serves both classes -- THR215 Dramatic Literature and THR413 Playscript Analysis... and this is a problem. The DramLit is supposed to introduce to analysis and starts with the Greeks and ends where the Playscript begins -- high modernity and postmodernity.They should have their own directories, but I didn't arranged it this way, when I knew little about web-bulding. Now it's difficult to do, unless I am to do it all over again. If you want to see the difference, you better go to the CLASSES directory and follow the classes assignments.
As little as I knew, the pages now are used for different purposes -- for directing and acting classes. Also, I had to build 200X Aesthetics Files directory to give an intro to the drama theory, but this course has its own structure and goals: Theatre and Art Through Film.
I try to compensate the lack of clearity with the links to everything, but maybe the new idea of organizing the pages as a textbook can get me out...
Use "service" pages, if you're lost!
ARISTOTLE. Anatoly, why do you use this word "playscript," instead of "plays" or "drama"?
ANATOLY. Well, sir, twenty three centuries ago, your time, it was impossible to images what kind of wierd "texts" will be written and staged. You see, I am using another term "texts" -- because of the structuralism, performance theory and postmodernist philosophy...
ARISTOTLE. What are talking about?
ANATOLY. According to semiotics, sir, everything is a "text" or "script" encoded in special language. That's why I say "play-script"...
ARISTOTLE. Semio... what? Greek?
ANATOLY. Yes, the study of signs. Drama has its own language, as you wrote, special code -- and this is what we study. Analysis?
ARISTOTLE. Show me the book... What language is that?
ANATOLY. English. Developed out of Latin, sir. After your time, of course.
ARISTOTLE. What about my language?
ANATOLY. Dead. It's a dead language, sir. Sorry. But the dramatic language is not! You see?
ARISTOTLE. Do you use my book, the small one, you know...
ANATOLY. All the time! The Poetics! In all my classes, sir. Very good book.
ARISTOTLE. Good. This is good. How do you use it?
ANATOLY. We start with your six principles, or elements -- structure and texture. Idea, Plot, Character...
ARISTOTLE. All right, all right, I know, I wrote it. Why not with the composition: the beginning, the middle and the end?
ANATOLY. You see, sir, they think this is too simple. Like ABC or 123...
ARISTOTLE. Simple? Fools! Do they know what is needed for exposition?
ANATOLY. That's why I start with the six principles! So they can see what must be established right away...
ARISTOTLE. I see. Do they understand why Idea, Plot and Character I defined as "structure"?
STUDENT. Professor Anatoly, who are talking with?
ARISTOTLE. I hate teaching! I like thinking, I like talking to myself.
STUDENT. Did you say "structure"? I understand why plot or even characters could be this structure, but "thought" or "idea"?
ARISTOTLE. Tell him not to use word "plot" -- use "action"! What do they read first?
ANATOLY. "Hamlet" by Shakespeare.
ARISTOTLE. Any good? I don't remember him.
ANATOLY. Very good, sir. Englishman, dead, too.
ARISTOTLE. Wait a minute! The youngster! Now I recall, the bold one, just came from the Purgatory! Does he use my principles?
[Read the first scene from "Hamlet"]
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