(when you use these words, you’re committing dramaturgy)
Structure
Action
Accretion
Beginning/Middle/End
Conflict/Crisis/Climax/Catharsis
Continuity/Discontinuity
Diminishment/Emphasis
Episodic
Exposition/Foreshadowing
Form/Content
Fragmentation
Key Information
Innovation/Convention/Cliché/Parody
Image
Imminence/Closure/Openness
Linearity
Metaphor
Musicality/Pace
Part-to-Whole
Plot
Point of Attack/Dénouement
Recognition/Reversal
Repetition/Pattern/Reincorporation
Rhythm
Story
Tension
Character
Choice
Colors/Layers
Context
Empathy
Familiar Faces
(Hero/Villain/Braggart/Parasite/Seductress/ Dirty Old Man/Young Lover, etc.)
Journey/Arc
Honesty/Compassion
Impulse/Incongruity
Motivation
Passion/Pity/Fear
Probability
Suffering/Pain
Transformation
Meaning
Contact/Relevancy
Idea/Concept
Language
Connotation/Denotation
Figures of Speech
Innuendo/Sub-text
Production Elements
Locale/Time
Light/Color/Darkness
Song/Music/Sound
Costumes/Props/Space
Slides/Film/Video
Genre and Style
Comedy/Romance
Melodrama,
Satire/Tragedy, etc.
Expressionism
Realism/Surrealism
Epic Theater/Theatricalism, etc.
Literary Managers and
Dramaturgs of the Americas
Liz Engelman, President
PO Box #728, Village Station
New York, NY 10014
lmdanyc@hotmail.com; www.lmda.org
In Canada,
Brian Quirt, Chair, Canadian Caucus
36 St. Paul Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5A 3H3
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