Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage
Essential Aristotelian Elements in Every Play
A course by Ronán Noone , Playwright, Screenwriter, and Teacher
About the video: Essential Aristotelian Elements in Every Play
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize the six Aristotelian elements essential to every play and pinpoint those elements using the world around you. Plus, there are three new ones. ”
In this video lesson Ronán Noone addresses the topic: Essential Aristotelian Elements in Every Play, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mastering Playwriting: Writing Characters, Dialogue and Stories for the Stage. Master playwriting fundamentals: create powerful plots, develop characters, and learn storytelling techniques for stage and screen.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, you will learn how to recognize The six Aristotelian elements are essential to every play and how to pinpoint those elements using the world around you. These elements come from Aristotle's Poetics. and I've been reductive in the way that I break them down. The first element we want to discuss is character. You are the character in your own play. Remember this from our previous lesson? You wake up in bed. You entered the play. You are the protagonist. It is the protagonist we're going to be following in each of our plays. This begins your play. The second element is plot. Th...”
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Ronán Noone
A course by Ronán Noone
Ronán Noone is a playwright, screenwriter, and teacher. After graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, he started working for various newspapers in his native Ireland. With time, Ronán realized that although he had a passion for storytelling, journalism wasn’t his medium. He started writing plays and eventually immigrated to the U.S. to study with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott at Boston University.
His plays have been on stages in Spain, Ireland, Canada, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, London, UK, India, and the U.S. Ronán has won a national award for playwriting from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the prestigious Boston, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Script, including three best new play awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England.
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