Drama IDEA
Jamie and Kristen Minehart
Aside
a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play
Example: The actor only told the crowd " How am I going to tell them I am joining the army?"
Sentence: Aside became a popular dramatic technique during Elizabethan era.
Foil
a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another
Example: Draco Malfoy is the foil character to Harry Potter.
Sentence: Dearth Vadar and Luke Skywalker are foil characters in that last three Star Wars movies.
Pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
Example: Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
Sentence: The pun about reading a book about anti-gravity and It being impossible to put down, is funny.
Monologue
a long speech by one actor in a play
Example: And indeed there will be time
To wonder, ‘Do I dare?’ and, ‘Do I dare?’Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair…
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions
which
a minute will reverse.’(The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S Eliot)
Sentence: The play was really good especially the monologue in the middle.
Soliloquy
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
Example: “To be, or not to be–that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
…………………………………………….”
(Hamlet by William Shakespeare)
Sentence: The soliloquy at the end showed a woman still confused about who she really is.
Tragedy
a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character
Example: William Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
Sentence: William Shakespeare's play Hamlet was a tragedy.