ABSTRACT
Critics continue to debate Aristotle’s statements about plot, but that is not of concern at this moment. Most audiences — including actors, directors, and designers — expect some kind of plot, even if it is not apparent why they do. In essence, plot means the story line, the sense that things are moving, that the play is getting somewhere, and that events are moving forward. In this basic sense, plot serves to sustain interest in how everything does or does not come together in the end. It evokes the questions “What happened? ” “What is happening? ” and “What is going to happen? ”
