CSI : TRIFLESTHE DRAMATIC EVENT ART AUDIENCE IMAGINATION INITIATION INTENTION INTERPRETATION IMITATION IDENTIFICATION DRAN, “to act, to do” = ACTIVE relationshipTHEATRON, “seeing place” = PERCEPTIONDRAN, “to act, to do” = ACTIVE relationship Wall-E (2008)THEATRON, “seeing place” = PERCEPTIONPAGE to STAGE Romeo + Juliet (1996) PLAY PRODUCTIONTEXT PERFORMANCEAristotle on DRAMAPLOT THEMECHARACTER RHYTHMLANGUAGE STAGECRAFT Wilder on THEATRE COLLABORATIVE COMMUNAL CONVENTIONAL CURRENTORIENTATIONSAuthenticity ArtificeAPPROACHING A PLAY CONTEXT SUBJECT TREATMENTCONTEXT Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) - American Modernism- Provincetown PlayersFIRST WAVE The Shock of the New- European Modernists - 1913 New York Armory ShowSECOND WAVE GEORGE CRAM COOK & SUSAN GLASPELL- PROVINCETOWN, MA.- PP to NYCLA VIE BOHEME LIBERATION!THE WHARF THEATRE, c.1916NEW WAVE- ENTER THE FEMALE DRAMATISTS- NATURALISMSUBJECT REAL-LIFE MODELS MURDERERS OR MARTYRS?Lizzie Borden Margaret Hossack TREATMENT VERISIMILITUDE Material Truth Cause & Effect Daily Behavior Stable World Empathy NaturalismAPPROACHING A PLAY CONTEXT SUBJECT TREATMENTCONTEXTMODERNISMNATURALISMPROVINCETOWN PLAYERSFEMINISM SUBJECTHOSSACK MURDERCOLD-CASETREATMENT VERISIMILITUDE Material Truth Cause & Effect Daily Behavior Stable World Empathy NaturalismPLOT exposition-complication-climax- resolutionCHARACTER - naturalisticLANGUAGE - colloquial proseTHEMERHYTHM - gradual STAGECRAFTSUBTEXT No Country for Old Men (2007)STAGECRAFTSTAGE DIRECTIONS MOVEMENT (BLOCKING) & BEHAVIORIRONY [W]RIGHT[K]NOT “TRIFLES”ORIENTATIONAuthenticity ArtificeTrifles on stage (1916) Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)THEMESJusticeGenderMarriageIdentityInterpretation Community Perception“THE LAW “I WISH I’D COME HAS GOT OVER HERE ONCE TO PUNISH IN A WHILE. CRIME, THAT WAS A CRIME…MRS. HALE.” WHO’S GOING TO PUNISH