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THA 213 Introduction To Play-Writing

NCE2 levelArts & Humanities8 topics

THA 213 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. The course introduces the student to the concept of play -writing for the stage, radio
  2. Sources of idea that will give you the impetus to develop a theme
  3. The dramatic form, e.g. tragedy, comedy, farce, melodrama and tragi-comedy.
  4. Audience
  5. Characterization
  6. The idea of prologue, epilogue and stage direction
  7. Dramatic technique
  8. Language and style

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The course introduces the student to the concept of play -writing for the stage, radio

This topic introduces playwriting as the art of creating dramatic works meant for performance, with special attention to writing for the stage and for radio. For the exam, you must master what a play script is, how dramatic action is organised, and how the demands of live visual performance differ from the demands of sound-only performance.

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