Playwright Discovery Award Teacher's Guide - The John F. Kennedy ...
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DRAMATURGY EXERCISE 4 continued<br />
A. Define the Plot<br />
Matt meets and tries to date Alexa.<br />
B. Define the Story<br />
Matt tries to get to know Alexa. <strong>The</strong>y are in Band together and both like each other. When he takes her<br />
out for the first time, he discovers she’s unable to eat at the restaurant he’s chosen. He reacts badly when<br />
she tells him she can’t eat at the restaurant. Later he apologizes. Alexa accepts his apology and teaches<br />
him about living with an allergy to nuts.<br />
C. Identify the Dramatic Problem<br />
How to react when a friend can’t eat nuts.<br />
D. Find the Character Journey<br />
Alexa’s Journey:<br />
Matt’s Journey:<br />
To date Matt and teach him about nut allergies.<br />
To date Alexa and learn about nut allergies.<br />
PART 2 Identify the Areas to Explore Further<br />
Consider ways to expand the current rules to enliven the play’s story, dramatic problem, and character<br />
journeys. Explore how obstacles, environment, time, story, and plot function.<br />
Consider the following:<br />
• Identify character wants/needs and obstacles<br />
• Identify how or why certain events take place<br />
• Identify the dramatic problem or question<br />
• Identify how the theme shapes or unites the character’s journey<br />
• Identify how character traits, talents, and disabilities impact the play’s story<br />
• Identify what creates the problem for the play—a disability, a philosophical or ethical question<br />
• Identify how time functions<br />
• Identify how environment or space functions<br />
• Identify how scenes connect to one another<br />
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52 ACT III: DRAMATURGY