What is the title of the play?
Who is the playwright?
What is the time period of the play?
Who was the audience that this was written for?
What genre is the play?
What is the Playwright's Purpose in writing this play?
What is the THEME of the play? ( The Main idea or lesson that is learned in the play)
How many acts does the play have? How many scenes?
What settings do we see in the play? List the places in order.
Please list each character and give a brief description of each ( Find hints and clues by the author, character or other characters in the play. ( Try to include age, race, physical description and emotional state)
Who is the protagonist in the play?
What drives the protagonist to do what he or she does?
What is the fatal flaw or comic weakness of the character?
How does the character change? What specifically makes that person change?
Who is the antagonist? What is his/her purpose in the entire play?
How do the other characters help the protagonist on their journey? What is their specific part in the play?
Plot: What is the exposition in the play? How do we find out what is going on? What is the discovery?
Plot: Inciting incident. WHat happens that gets the ball rolling? It is usually an avent that happens.
Plot: What obstacles are in the way? What is the conflict?
Crisis: Where does the problem really reveal itself to be the real issue?
Climax: Where is the High point of the play?
Denoument or resolution: How do the loose ends of the story tie up? What happens to each character?
Use of dramatic devices: Discuss Irony, foreshadowing, suspense and surprises. ( 2 sentences for each)
What type of language is used? Poetic? Heroic? Archaic? Contemporary, ethnic or original
Period of style. What are the scene changes or changes within the single set as a play? How can it be flexible?
What is the overall mood of the play?
Discuss the essential scenic elements in which the play could NOT be produced.
What symbolism is used in the play?
What time period or concept would you use in this play?