REVIEW TIME!

What is a STAGE?
•A designated space for the performance
of productions. The stage serve as a
space for actors or performers and a
focal point for the audience.
What is STAGING?
•It is a process of selecting,
designing, adapting, or modifying
the performance space for a play or
film.
4 BASIC THEATER STAGES

1. Proscenium Stage
2. Arena Stage
3. Thrust Stage
4. Flexible Stage
Lesson Objectives:
1. Identify the parts of a one-act play.
2. Outline the structure of a one-act play.
3. Write at least one scene for one-act play
applying the various elements, techniques,
and literary devices.
Character Charades
•Guess the character being described
using the video clips, lines, acting, or
picture clues shown. It can be from
dramas, movies, or animated films.
LET’S BEGIN!
Character Charades
Character Charades
Character Charades
Character Charades
Parts and Structures
of a One-Act Play

Creative Writing: Quarter 2 Week 5

Complexity & Number
1. PLOT
- One-Act Play cannot accommodate multiple
plots or situations.
- It can be from everyday life or from history, or
from an incident out of a story or a novel
Complexity & Number
1. PLOT
- The basic plot formula is that of a beginning, a
middle and an end, where the end is distinctly
different from the beginning. This is what lends
to a play its dramatic quality.
Complexity & Number
2. DRAMATIC RHYTHYM
- In drama it is used in the sense of
effecting a “marked change” at the
end from what was in the beginning.
Complexity & Number
2. DRAMATIC RHYTHYM
- The dramatic element thus is an important
constituent part of a play. In the absence of
dramatic rhythm, the play loses its vitality.
Complexity & Number
3. Action
-Action is the change in the end. It is
what is technically known as ‘happening’
– constitutes the core of a play.
Complexity & Number
3. Action
-the term ‘action’ should not be
confused with the term ‘acting’ where
the players, enact the play on the stage.
Complexity & Number
3. Action
-Action helps the play to progress or
to evolve from the beginning to the
end.
Complexity & Number
3. Action
-Need not necessarily involve physical
movement, but a shifts in attitude,
emotion, idea, thought, and argument.
Complexity & Number
4. Conflict
-Protagonist – the middle term “agon”
in Greek means struggle or conflict in
which an individual is engaged.
Complexity & Number
4. Conflict
-give rise to action in drama. This
action culminates in a marked change
at the end of a play.
Complexity & Number
5. Characterization
-conflict and action can take place
only through characters.
Complexity & Number
5. Characterization
-Character or Dramatis Personae have
to initiate action that will give rise to
conflict in a play.
Complexity & Number
5. Characterization
-A play is good depending on the
depth of its characterization.
Parts of a One-Act Play
1. Title
2. Playwright
3. Character
4. Cast
5. Setting
6. Stage Direction
7. Name of the Character
8. Dialogue