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Sunday Anthem Schedule
OVERVIEW OF STORY STRUCTURE
1. SET-UP
- Introduce characters and setting as briefly as possible
- Tells the audience just enough so that the inciting incident has full impact, no more
2. INCITING INCIDENT
- The event without which the rest of the story wouldn't happen.
- It upsets the balance of the protagonist's life
- It arouses protagonist's desire for something that will set things right.
- It raises the dramatic question in the audience's mind
- It leads the audience to expect a crisis that is directly related to the inciting incident (the scene the audience is led to expect is called the “obligatory scene”)
3. PROGRESSIVE COMPLICATIONS
- A series of conflict-filled events that makes life more and more difficult for the characters.
- Includes at least three major reversals (the third may be the crisis)
- In longer plays, may include subplots
4. CRISIS
- Brings protagonist and antagonist face to face
- Forces protagonist to choose the lesser of two evils or between two irreconcilable goods
- Crisis means decision.
- Crisis is the obligatory scene
5. CLIMAX
- The action the protagonist choose to take when under the ultimate pressure of the crisis
- This action should be full of meaning
6. RESOLUTION
- Shows the spread of the effects of the climax throughout the world of the story
- Ties up subplots if necessary
- Allows audience to recover its composure
