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Spectacle is everything the audience sees while they watch the play. For example, the character's costumes.

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Other forms of Musical theatre include Opera and Ballet which both use music to enhance performance on stage.

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One famous producer of theatre is Crazy Catholic. He has produced many local plays that were very successful at various locations across Trinidad.

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Earl Lovelace

Zeno Constance

Derek Walcott

Raymond Ramcharitar

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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Some plays are written by playwrights as having music only as the dialogue. These plays are known as Musicals.  Musical theatre incorporates song, acting, dance and sometimes spoken dialogue. Music, words and movement combine seamlessly to exhibit strong emotional content.

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Another example of dialogue is a Soliloquy in which one character deliver a long speech to the entire audience. The innermost thoughts and feelings of the character are revealed through a soliloquy.

An example of a Soliloquy is
My Handsome Captain by Simone Schwarz- Bart.

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Example of Dialogue in Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers

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Example of Dialogue in Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers

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T l · J E A N:
Like the death of my mother.
O L D M A N:
Like the vileness of the frog?
T l · J E A N:
[Advancing] Like the vileness of the frog.
O L D M A N:
Like the froth of the constrictor?

The following dialogue above was taken from Scene III, page 140.

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Static Characters
They usually stay one way throughout the play and does not change their persona to mimic other characteristics.

Dynamic Characters
They usually change throughout the play and often times change their persona to mimic other characteristics.

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The Protagonist
He/ She is the hero of the play and all major events occur around this individual.

The Antagonist
He/ She is the villain of the play and and tries to prevent the hero from trying to attain their goal.

For example, in Derek's Walcott's play Ti Jean and his Brothers, the protagonist is Ti Jean and the antagonist is The Devil/White Planter.

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Round Characters
They are usually well-developed throughout the play and the reader/viewer
knows a great deal about them.

Flat Characters
They are less developed throughout the play and the reader/viewer knows little about them.

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Good versus Evil

Revenge

Redemption

Fate versus Free Will

Chaos and Order

Betrayal

Immortality

Injustice

Motherhood

Role of Women

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In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the main theme is violence. Macbeth takes the throne of Scotland by killing Duncan and his guards and tries to hold on to it by sending people to murder Banquo and Macduff's family.

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In Shakespeare's Hamlet the main theme is death. It is the death of the King Hamlet that triggers the events in the play.

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In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,  the main theme is love. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet.

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Additionally, a  plot can either be Linear where the sequence of events happen chronologically,  Analepsis (flashback) or Prolepsis (flash-forward).

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Rags to Riches

Rebirth

Person versus self

Person versus person

Person versus society

Person versus nature

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TRAGEDY
A tragic plot is often accompanied by a tragic hero who falls victim due to his/her hamartia. It is often led by the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by the heroic individual.
For example, Shakespeare's:

Hamlet

Macbeth

Titus Andronicus.

Another intriguing tragic play is Oedipus The King written by Sophocles. In this epic play, Oedipus tries to fight fate but ends up becoming a tragic hero. This is an example of Man versus Self.

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COMEDY
A comedic plot is one in which  is considered to be amusing and is satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending.
For example Shakespeare's:

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

are all comedies due to the way that each play ends in a blissful tone.

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Spectacle as defined by Aristotle includes all the visual aspects of a production, including costumes, make-up, scenery and special effects. However, spectacle is the least important of all the elements of drama because even though it enhances a play's performance and visual aesthetics, it is not a necessary requirement for a production to be performed.

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Music is the sounds that accompany the sound of the actors voices' as they speak. Music is also the sounds that is made from instruments that set a particular mood or tone for the audience.

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Dialogue is the written words spoken by the characters in a play. The action of the play is moved along via dialogue.
It can be between two characters, amongst three or more characters or one character speaking to the audience as in the case of a one man show or one woman show.

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Characters are the people and or animals that make up the cast in a play. It is the characters that propel the plot forward. Characterization is the way in which a actor presents a character in a production.

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The theme of any dramatic work is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative which is apparent throughout the body of work. In addition, the  theme is an idea or point that is central to a story, which can often be summed in a single word. Themes in literature are not usually stated directly, they are implied.

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Essentially, the plot of any dramatic work of art is the sequence of events that occur. Similarly to stories, the plot of most, if not all, plays adhere to Freytag's Pyramid.

This means that most plays have an Exposition where the characters are introduced in a particular setting, Rising Action where the conflict (Internal/ External) is introduced, a Climax where the culmination of events take place, the falling Action where the conflict begins to resolve and the Denouement where the conflict is resolved.