Creating Dramatic Plays
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The word “theme” refers to the subject of a play, or to the story. For example, the theme of “Romeo and Juliet” is youthful love crossed by ancestral hate; the theme of “...
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As indicated by the name, a blind-alley theme is one from which there is no exit. It is a problem incapable of solution, or of which all possible solutions are equally unsatisfactory and undesirable....
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The ability and power to observe, to penetrate, and to reproduce character accurately is an inherent gift. You have it, or not. It can’t be acquired nor theoretically learned, but certain skills...
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The biggest challenge for the playwright is to find a crisis with an ending which is acceptable to his artistic conscience and the dramatic effect he requires. It is more challenging to write a good l...
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There will always be lots of ‘cooks’ in the kitchen, or is that playwrights in the theater, then there are also the critics, the academics, the audience, seasoned theater-goers and writers...
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In some plays there are frequent cases in which the end depends on something very like the straightening out of a tangled rope or the loosening of some knot in the mind of some of the characters, or d...
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In the world of drama the aim is to study how to awaken and to sustain the keen interest, or curiosity, which can be felt only by those who see the play for the first time. The challenge is that popul...
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The average quality of modern dialogue bears witness to the extraordinary progress made by drama in the English language. The playwright realizes that it is possible to combine naturalness with vivaci...
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The critic Ferdinand Brunetière said: "The theatre in general, is nothing but the place for the development of the human will, attacking the obstacles opposed to it by destiny, fortune, or circumstanc...
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Most dramatists draw up a provisional Dramatis Personae before beginning the serious work of constructing the play. Ibsen mostly did so, but then shortened the list later. Some saved up the characters...
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Each form has particular advantages. A retrospective play like “Rosmersholm” flows steady and full like a winding river. For light comedy and for romantic plays without in depth character-...
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The dramatist's chief aim in the first act should be to arouse and carry forward the interest of the audience, by using an interesting theme. Each act as we have seen, should contain a subordinate cri...
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The aim of this guide is to provide would-be dramatists with some systematic advice and guidance in a plain and practical way. Many existing books are more aimed at guiding the judgment of the critic ...
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Good advice, often and authoritatively laid down, is that a dramatist must on no account keep a secret from his audience, because it is so extremely difficult to keep, try as you may. From only one au...
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The concept of logic is loved by French dramatists, but their over -emphasis lead writers such as M. Brieux and M. Hervieu to develop a stiff, formal and symmetrical style of dramatic logical argument...
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