Play Analysis

• Given Circumstances
• "Playwright's setting or all material in a playscript that delineates the environment - the special "world" of the play
• polar attitudes
• Environmental Facts
• condition, place, time
• year, time, season, time of day
• economic environment
• political environment
• social environment
• religious environment, formal and formal psychological controls
• "Do not assume anything"
• Previous Action
• In media res
• What the audience is told happened before the present action started
• "To the director, there is never any dull exposition but only a rec... etc."
• When an actor acts: ten ingredients present in any life encounter
• relationship
• objective
• obstacle
• strategy
• tactics
• text
• subtext
• interior monologue
• evaluation
• beats / beat changes / units
• Polar Attitudes
• "every character in a play is conditioned, as in real life, by the special world he is caught in, and he will hold specific attitudes