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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools
Table of contents
List of figures ..................................................................................................vi
Abbreviations and Acronyms .......................................................................viii
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Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ix
Preface ............................................................................................................. x
Chapter One: Major movements in theatre arts ......................................... 1
Concept of theatre movement ...................................................................... 1
Realism ......................................................................................................... 2
Naturalism .................................................................................................... 4
Differences between realism and naturalism................................................ 7
Expressionism .............................................................................................. 7
Symbolism ................................................................................................... 10
Theatre of the absurd ................................................................................... 12
Theatre for social change ............................................................................ 16
Theatre for Development process ............................................................... 18
Revision exercise 1 ...................................................................................... 27
Chapter Two: Scriptwriting ......................................................................... 29
Concept of script and scriptwriting ............................................................. 29
Emergence and development of scriptwriting ............................................. 30
From a story to a script ................................................................................ 32
Elements of script content and structure ..................................................... 33
Elements of scripts formatting .................................................................... 40
Screenplay ................................................................................................... 40
Stage play .................................................................................................... 47
Radio play ................................................................................................... 50
Revision exercise 2 ...................................................................................... 54
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