Scene (drama)

The scene and the appearance is a trial technically conditional section of a play. - From the division into scenes, the division into acts or elevators that arises from the logic of action, and the division into images that can be explained by the different decoration Jump. In more modern pieces since the 20th century sometimes mix these three criteria of subdivision. - Scene is also used as a synonym for the stage, for example in "conversion to open scene." The Skene in the ancient theater was the stage area behind the stage.

To rehearse a play sense, it is traditionally divided into units, during which the number of performers on stage does not change. If any man or going, start a new scene. These scenes are per act, sometimes also numbered per image (for example: Act 1, 2nd picture, Scene 3 ). Often this distinction is noted in the original text. So the scenes after starring in the available can be used in the sampling plan.

Occasionally, the terms image and scene are equated. In the plays of William Shakespeare done frequent change of location that have been marked on the stages of his time not by a technically complex transformation stage, but merely a shift of the performer to another location stage (see Globe Theatre, Apron Stage ). According to modern understanding Shakespeare mean by scene so do not make an appearance, but a stage. Due to the frequent change of scenes of his pieces were, as the proscenium stage had enforced (where a local shift of the actors was not enough to make a scene changes significantly ) often unplayable held.

In the opera, the term scene often distinguishes the open, dramatic forms of the recitative of the closed, lyrical aria, ensemble or choir ( "Scene and Aria ").

Scene development

The elaboration of the underlying dramatic conflict and the consequent climax is the responsibility of the director or game manager, which also includes the incursions of the player. The highlight is always at the same time also represents the turning point that initiates the end of the scenic conflict. The end does not have to include the resolution of the conflict. The conflict can be drawn through all the scenes of the play and find his resolution at the end.

In the scene development adjacent to the elaboration of the conflict, especially the W - questions play an important role. " Who? " (Type of characters, idiosyncrasies of the figures), "What?" ( What is it? Eg a marriage proposal ), " Where? " ( In a park, in an apartment on the beach, etc.), "When? " ( Presence or in a bygone era, season, in the early hours of the morning, day or evening ... ), "Why?" ( Refers to the motivation of the actors in the scene people), " What for? " ( Refers to the intentions of the actors in the scene people) and "How?" ( How to try the persons to enforce their intentions? ). Especially the elaboration of the different motivations and intentions of the characters it describes the underlying dramatic conflict become clear.

The criteria for scene development described here also apply to the development of theatrical scenes on a specific topic ( drugs, violence, love, etc. ) that will be developed by means of improvisation and not based on a fixed theater text.

• Part of a drama