ABSTRACT
Events The easiest and most accessible way to come to terms with a play is through the events in the plot. That is why action analysis starts with the process of identifying and explaining the play’s events and then builds on this foundation. An event is something that generally would not or should not happen. As a result, it changes everything, causes new ideas and feelings in a character, forces a character to see life in a new way, and changes the direction of a character’s life. The bigger the event, the bigger the change is. To distinguish an event from an ordinary fact is quite simple. Stanislavsky suggested looking back on any stage of our own life and trying to remember what the main event was in this interval of time and understand how it was refl ected in our relations with others. Of course, it is easy to appreciate what this or that event is in one’s own life. But just try to appreciate the value of a similar fact not for oneself but for another person, and how mistaken we can be in our estimation of the fact from the other person’s
point of view. Even for that of a close friend or relative, it is not very easy. Empathy — the capacity to recognize or understand another’s state of mind or emotion — is necessary to appreciate what is important in someone else’s life. And for empathy to be real, it is necessary for us to study all the circumstances that predetermined the given fact, all the motives that led the person to perform this or that action. It would be necessary to interview this person and obtain some very personal information for this purpose.
