Updated: 6/25/09; 8:01:24 PM.
'if' ...
What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. - Cormac McCarthy
        

>

Wednesday, January 14, 2004
> Muthos

"Aristotle defined the parts of drama in a significant order. He specified: PLOT, CHARACTER, LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, THE VISUAL, MUSIC. Plot is first. Well is it plot? It is the vexed word MUTHOS: vexed because it is one of those portmanteau Greek words which means a multitude of things - story, narrative, myth, theme, comunication of an emotionally charged representation of men acting or being acted upon and experiencing as a consequence success or defeat."
"Characters enact plot and communicate it. And they do so by the use of dramatic language (words, thought, visuals, music). These means of expression are what I define as form. But since the beginning and end of theatre is the plot, the form functions primarily as narrative."(Peter Hall. Exposed by the Mask. 15)
:: note :: . . . hmmm . . . those damned Greeks . . . still each moment the question "What's the story?" and "What do you see?" accompany most Play . . . still more the story embraces communication of myth&transformation . . .

© Copyright 2009 if.
Click here to visit the Radio UserLand website.    Click to see the XML version of this web page.   Subscribe to my feed    Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.

 

January 2004
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Dec   Feb


Site search Web search

powered by FreeFind


www.flickr.com


Recent Posts


CURRENT MOON

How this works

Technorati Profile

Clicky Web Analytics

Clicky