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NARRATIVE
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What is narrative?
Why do we tell
stories in the form of
stories?
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What is narrative?
SIMPLE: Refers to a spoken or written account of
events (a story).
COMPLEX: A system of interrelated and organized
stories that share the common desire to appease
audience expectations according to known
literary or rhetorical/intellectual dominances.
SLIGHTLY MORE COMPLEX: Meta or Master
narratives : trans-historical narratives embedded
in cultures, in public life and society. A grand or
overarching narrative that gives rise to
ideologies. A narrative about narratives.
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What is narrative?
What is narrative?
What is narrative?
What is narrative?
Ask yourself:
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YESTERDAY:
What is narrative?
- An account of events (simple) and a system of
ideas or stories around which societies and
cultures are constructed (complex).
- We communicate through stories because the
narrative form allows us to organize information
in a connected way.
- Story is simply a set of connected events. Plot is
the logic which connects those events (cause
and effect)
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YESTERDAY:
How does narrative function
differently in theatre?
- It engages us in temporal, spatial,
emotional and cognitive senses
- It connects us to real human beings
(empathy)
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A critical analysis of I Turned Away and She Was Gone through the frame of Narrative
- In what order was information given?
- Which events were selected?
- How did it begin and end?
- How was it told (the storytelling forms)?
- How were you as an audience member implicated in the telling?
- Whose story was it? From whose point of view or through whose eyes were we seeing it?
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3 Components of Point of
View
Questions to look at when trying to
establish POV in a performance piece:
1. Spatial Temporal (the place and time
of the action).
2. Emotional (your own emotional
response to the performance)
3. Ideology (what beliefs or values are
being expressed?)
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CLASS TASK
Discuss the Point of View of the I Turned Away using
these 3 guiding questions:
Spatial/Temporal what did the geographic location
and the way time is approached in this piece tell
you about its point of view?
Emotional how did your personal history influence
how you received or connected with this piece?
Ideology what were the beliefs or ideas expressed
in this piece about how the world works?
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We wish to remind the university that this debate is not new. We wish
to reject, as revisionist, the idea that moving the statue would erase
Rhodes from the universitys history.
- Open letter from former SRC presidents to University Council, 19
March 2015
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BASIC FUNCTIONS OF
NARRATIVE
The beginning creates desire in
audience
The middle impedes the desire
The end fulfills it satisfying or
unsatisfying
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RECAP
Critical questions to ask when analyzing
narrative (I Turned Away):
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Order of information
Selection of events
Beginnings and endings
Primary medium
Point of view
Audience address
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ANNOUNCEMENT
RAILROAD ANGELS (Musical)
Hiddingh Campus, Arena Theatre
20h00
18 21 March (incl. 16h00 on 21
March)
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RECAP
Point of View in Narrative
- Whose story is being included and
excluded, who is central and who is
peripheral
- The theatre-maker always has a POV
- Whose POV are you being asked to
see the production from?
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RECAP
Dominant narratives in the city
- Stories that are told in the city, stories
that arent.
- Ways in which public events (like
Rhodes Must Fall) disrupt existing
narratives of space (what space is for,
what their historical contexts are, who
space belongs to)
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