How Dialogue Can Define Relationships in Plays

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STEVE CAVERNO: Steve Caverno, on behalf of Expert Village, here to talk to you today about dialogue. Okay, here's another way a dialogue can function: To define relationships. So, if you're pulled over going 95 miles an hour on a 45-mile an hour zone, the police officer comes up to your window and says, "Do you realize that you're going 95 miles per hour?" Well, you probably are not going to say, "Oh, come on man! Cut me a break. You know what I mean?" I mean, you might--that will define your character. But more likely, you're going to address the officer as an officer and you're going to speak very politely to that officer. Whereas when you're talking to your friend, there are friends like, "Hey!" Your roommate might be like, "Hey! Can you take out the trash?" You're like, "Oh, man. Come on. Cut me a break. I've been working all day." You wouldn't say that to an officer of the law, and you probably wouldn't say that to your teacher or whoever you might be talking to that might be a figure of authority. This can signify authority. Then, "baby." You might call someone "baby". That kind of feel--it implies that you're in a relationship with them. You're in a romantic relationship. You might call a friend "dude" or "girlfriend" or something like that, so that kind of implies a casual relationship whereas you use "Mister" or "Mrs." that implies that you have more of a formal relationship with people. So, these are some of the ways in which dialogue can reveal relationships with people 'cause sometimes in the play, you got to reveal that. You don't--you might not want to say, "Oh. Hey mom! Can you take me to the store?" That kind of--it's like, "Okay, I'm going to put in mom so I know that this is the person's mother." You might just reveal that through the way they talk to people. You might not necessarily have to say "mom" if you say in the right way. If the mom, comes on the stage and they say, "Jeremy, clean up your room!" Well, you kinda get that's the mom, and they don't they have to say, "Jeremy, my son, clean up the room." That's kind of extraneous. So, this is a way in which dialogue can define relationships.

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