ENGLISH DRAMA.

MODERN
BRITISH DRAMA. ANNIE BAKER’S
THE ALIENS, ANALYSIS OF THE
DRAMA
Lecturer: JALILOVA LOLA JALILOVNA
Associate professor (PhD)
 PLAN:
 1. English drama. Modern British
drama.
 2. Annie Baker’s
 3.The Aliens, analysis of the drama
KEY WORDS

resist

oppression

oppressive systems

arena for struggle

a creative manner

expression of rebellion and refusal

arena for struggle

 HIDDEN ELEMENT
 Watch out for a hidden element in this
presentation…
 if you see it, shout “I love Reading!”
WHAT IS MODERN BRITISH DRAMA?

 Modern Drama is essentially a drama of

ideas rather than action. The stage is used by
dramatists to give expression to certain ideas
which they want to spread in society. Modern
Drama dealing with the problems of life has
become far more intelligent than ever it was in
the history of drama before the present age.
.
 WHAT ARE THE MAIN
CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN
BRITISH DRAMA?
 Realism is the most significant and
outstanding quality of the Modern English
Drama. The dramatists of the earlier years of
the 20th century were interested in
naturalism and it was their endeavour (try)
to deal with real problems of life in a
realistic technique to their plays.
Henrik Ibsen is famously
known as the Father of
Modern Drama, and it is worth
recognizing how literal an
assessment that is. The
Norwegian playwright was not
merely one of a wave of new
writers to experiment with
dramatic form, nor did he
make small improvements
that were built upon by
successors.
 WHAT ARE THE 7 ELEMENTS OF MODERN
DRAMA?
 Characters-Plot-Theme-Dialogue-Convention-
Genre-Audience.
 Characters-a person in a novel, play, or
movie;played by an actor.
 Plot-the events that make up a story, or the
main part of a story.
 Theme-the subject or main idea of a play,
novel, or movie.
 Dialogue-conversation between two or more
people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
 WHAT ARE THE 7 ELEMENTS OF
MODERN DRAMA?
 Drama is created and shaped by the
elements of drama which, for the Drama
course, are listed as: role, character and
relationships, situation, voice, movement,
space and time, language and texts, symbol
and metaphor, mood and atmosphere,
audience and dramatic tension.
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
ELEMENT IN MODERN DRAMA?
 In a good play, each action or event
happens for a reason. A plot can serve a
theme and will influence the growth or
decline of the characters. Aristotle identified
plot and character as the two most
important elements of drama.
WHAT ARE THE THREE ELEMENTS
OF DRAMA ADDED IN THE MODERN
THEATRE?
elements of drama: The elements of
drama, by which dramatic works can be
analyzed and evaluated, can be categorized
into three major areas: literary elements,
technical elements, and performance
elements.
 WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF DRAMA?

 There are four types of drama, they

are comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy and
melodrama. These genres originated in different
times, but each of them has its own
characteristics. However, all of them have their
place in modern culture and should be
appreciated.
 What are the purposes of drama? expressing
the need for social change, communicating a
universal theme, recreating and interpreting
information, ideas, and emotions.
 https://quizlet.com/107036656/purposes-of-
drama-flash-cards/
 ANNIE BAKER (BORN APRIL
1981)
 American playwright, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-
winning play, The Flick (2013).
 Baker grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts, though she
moved between New York City and Massachusetts after her
parents divorced. She attended Tisch, New York University’s
arts school, graduating in 2003 with a B.F.A. in dramatic
writing. Thereafter, like many people involved in theatre,
she took day jobs of all sorts to support herself while
following her passion. She wrote Nocturama, in which a
depressed young man moves back home to live with his
mother and her boyfriend, in 2006.
 Baker’s debut Off-Broadway play, Body Awareness, was
performed in 2008, and it brought her national recognition.
The work was set in small-town Vermont, and it concerns a
troubled lesbian couple, a son with Asperger syndrome, and
a male photographer of nudes as their houseguest.
 “THE ALIENS”
 The play takes place in a small town in Vermont.
Two thirtyish men, Jasper and KJ, meet to discuss
music and poetry in an alley behind a coffee shop.
They discuss their band, which was called (among
many things) The Aliens. KJ has dropped out of
college and Jasper has not finished high school, but
is writing a novel. When Evan, a high school student
who works at the coffee shop arrives, the men
"decide to teach him everything they know.”
 The writer of an article in the Boston
Globe noted: "At least one-third of her play 'The
Aliens' should be silent, uncomfortably so, a note in
the text says."
 CRITICAL RESPONSE
 Charles Isherwood in his review for The New York
Times, wrote that The Aliens is "a gentle and extraordinarily
beautiful new play". He noted "Ms. Baker may just have the
subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the
theater today. Through the small details and telling asides
we learn the fundamentals of this friendship, founded on a
mutual sense of generalized alienation. At the risk of
appearing hyperbolic, I’ll go so far as to say there is
something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing
accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate,
truthful observation... her subjects in 'The Aliens' are mighty
indeed: no less than love and death, and how these two
facets of human existence are woven into the fabric of life,
the first sometimes unacknowledged or undivulged
(неразрешенный), the second ineluctable and often
unforeseen. To say any more would be unfair, for the second
act of this seemingly slight play takes a turn that is quietly
devastating."
 ANALYSIS
 Annie Baker is a Pulitzer prize-winning
playwright whose works present a charming, quiet
affection for human interactions with The Aliens being
a great example of those qualities. It is a deceivingly
easy seeming thing to take ordinary conversations and
elevate them to being theatrically relevant, but Annie
Baker manages to do just that in her writing. The big
question is how to convey meaningful subtext with the
silence that is written and woven into her plays. The
Aliens is a simple play about two misfits who spend
their time behind a coffee shop and the young Evan
who joins them. The play is about alienation and not
fitting in with society, but also, on a deeper level,
about the gulfs of solitude that exists between all
human beings
 . As a death happens between acts, it comes to remind
the audience our own human endings and suddenly the
very small things, like pauses, can take on a very
strong, haunting meaning. As much as there is space
between society and these three characters, there 're
gulfs of it between the characters themselves. Again,
Baker uses rhythm and pauses as a way to show how we
process one another by using the things we don’t say.
How we use silence to gauge others intentions. A part
of this is to give off a minimalist and real way of
speaking. We often hold pauses when we talk to each
other - we think, we hesitate and we are afraid.
Another way to look at this idea is to think of the
characters as aliens because they use
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 English drama. Modern British
drama.
 Annie Baker’s
 The Aliens, analysis of the
drama.