Notes

• environmental facts
• geographical location
• environmental facts-condition, place, time
• date-year, time, season, time of day
• economic environment-class level, state of wealth or poverty
• political environment-conservative, liberal, undecided
• social environment-smores
• in media res- in the middle of
• what the audience is told happened before the present action started
• "To the director, there is never any dull exposition but only a recalling of the past under the excitement and tension of active engagement..."
• Polar attitudes
• where a character begins and then ends up at the end of the play
• relationship
• objective
• obstacle
• strategy
• tactics
• text
• subtext
• interior monologue
• evaluation
• beats/beat challenges/units