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A Raisin In The Sun
BY: LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Dramatic Play Structure:
 Exposition: introduces characters and setting; provides basic
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information about relationships between characters and an
initial conflict between them
Rising Action: suspense builds; "the plot thickens." Characters make
decisions in response to the opening conflict; these decisions
complicate the action. Opens up the plot, allowing for different
possibilities of resolution.
Turning Point: characters or circumstances change (for the worse or
the better) due to an action upon which the main plot hinges. The
central or focal point of the play, hence the main purpose of the action.
Falling Action: the unravelling of complications leads to
the resolution of conflict.
Conclusion: celebration of a new order, new identities and an end to
conflict, frequently expressed through marriage(s).
Dramatic Play
Dramatic Play Features
 Script/Text, Scenario, Plan:
This is the starting point of the theatrical performance. The playwright’s
script is the text by which theatre is created. It can be simplistic as a
blue print to build a production from.
 The Process:
This is the coordination of the creative efforts usually headed up in
theatre by the director. It is the process of the director, actors,
designers, technicians, dancers, musicians, and any other collaborators
that come together on the script.
 The Product:
This is the end result of the process of work involved. The final product
that results from all of the labors coming together to complete the
finished work of script. This is what the audience will witness as they sit
in the theatre.
Dramatic Play Features
 The Audience:
Theatre requires an audience. For all of the arts public
is essential. The physical presence of an audience
can change a performance, inspire actors, and create
expectations. Theatre is a living breathing art
form. The presence of live actors on the stage in
front of live audiences sets it apart from modern day
films and television.
 The Playwright
The person who is responsible for the starting point of
the theatrical event. The initial creator of the script.
Stage Directions
Stage directions can
provide lots of useful
information for
actors, directors and
the backstage crew –
and also for people
who are reading a
script instead of
watching a
performance.
 In the script for a play, the most basic information is the
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dialogue (the words that the characters say). Without dialogue,
it’s not a script!
However, dialogue is not the only thing we can find in a script –
usually, we also find stage directions.
Look at the short script below. You will see that there are three
different kinds of text: Characters’ names are written in bold.
Stage directions are written in italics – and in (parentheses)
when they appear next to dialogue.
Dialogue is written in plain text.
The most basic stage directions give us information about:
where and when the action takes place (also known as the
setting) what the setting looks like