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POSSESSIVES  Friar Laurence inaugurated the secret marriage.
 The possessive shows the relationship of a noun to other
words in a sentence (ownership).
 Singular possessive noun = add apostrophe + s. ex. cat =
cat’s; Sara = Sara’s
Plural possessive noun: ex. children’s toys, men’s wear,
students’ tasks, my son-in-law’s, my mothers’ idea,
EDSA’s
 Possessive noun – a noun that display possession. Ex. The
book’s cover is amazing.
 Possessive pronoun – the pronoun also shows possession
(his, hers, ours, yours, mine, it’s, theirs, etc.). Ex. The bag
is hers.
 Possessive adjective – these possessives correspond to
pronouns (my, his, her, your, our). Ex. This is my computer.
 Possessive question – the word “whose” is used to find
out who owns something. Ex. Whose house is that?
ELEMENTS OF ONE-ACT PLAY
 A One-Act Play is a short piece of drama that is written in
one act.
 Drama – A theatrical setup including the theater and
accessories.
 Play – A literary composition consisting of dialogues
between characters.
 Scene – a division of scenes or parts in each act.
 Playwright – the author of the play.
 Script – the written version of a play or movie.
 Characters – the people who are involved in the story.
 Setting – the location and time of the play, in one-act play
usually should be set in a single location.
 Dialogue – it is intended to be spoken by the characters in
the play; short and concise.
 Conflict – the central tension or problem that the
characters must face.
 Plot – the sequence of events that make up the story.
 Theme – the playwright’s message or central idea in the
play.
ROMEO AND JULIET
 Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William
Shakespeare.
 The setting of the story was in Verona, Italy.
 The story begins as the Chorus introduces two feuding
families of Verona: the Capulets and the Montagues.
 Romeo, his friend Benvolio, and cousin Mercutio attended
the Capulet’s feast. There, Romeo instantly fell in love at
first sight with Juliet.
 Later that night, Romeo sneaked to the Capulet’s orchard
and saw Juliet at the balcony. Juliet learned that Romeo
came from the family’s enemy, a Capulet.
 Both confessed their love to one another and intend to
marry the next day.
 The next day, Tybalt (cousin of Juliet) challenged Romeo
for a duel but Romeo declined. Mercutio fought with
Tybalt instead. Tybalt died which angered Romeo.
 Romeo fought with Tybalt and killed him. He instantly
regretted his decision. He was banished from Verona.
 Lord Capulet gets angry with Juliet as she refused to
marry Paris.
 Romeo stayed in Mantua. Friar Laurence helped Juliet by
giving her a sleeping potion that would make her seem
dead for three days.
 Friar Laurence sent a message to Romeo to disclose the
truth but the message failed to reach him.
 The news that Romeo heard is that Juliet is already dead.
Mourning over the news, Romeo bought a poison and
went to Juliet’s “tomb”.
 Romeo was heartbroken seeing Juliet. He gave her last
kiss and took the poison. Later, Juliet woke up and saw
the lifeless body of Romeo beside her. She cried and took
Romeo’s dagger and stabbed herself to death.
 The deaths of their children lead the families to make
peace, and they promise to erect a monument in Romeo
and Juliet's memory.
 Verbals - A verbal is a word that has the form of a verb,
but it functions as another part of speech and not as the
verb in a sentence.
 The three kinds of verbals or verbids are gerunds,
infinitives, and participles.
GERUNDS
 Gerund is a form of a verb that acts as a noun. It is a
verbal ending in -ing that is used as a noun.
Ex: Reading is a very productive hobby.
My favorite exercise is jogging.
Scheduling the event was tricky.
PARTICIPLES
 Participles are verbal adjectives. They are used to
describe nouns and pronouns.
Ex. They were able to catch the singing bird.
The girl saw the broken glass.
 Present Participle ends with -ing. Ex. The singing bird is
outside my window.
 Past Participle usually ends with -d or -ed for regular
forms; irregular verbs may end with -n, -en, -t.
Ex. The exhausted students were too tired to move after
the practice.
I don’t like frozen food.
I love burnt toast.
INFINITIVES
 INFINITIVES are the words with the preposition “to” + the
base forms of the verb. Ex. to + walk = to walk
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Ex. To err is human. To forgive is divine. all, she lives near a train that crosses a bridge, and when
TYPES OF STAGES she hears that her husband has left town on business, she
 Thrust Stage - The thrust configuration is the oldest knows that she will be at home alone at the designated
known fixed type of staging in the world. time for the attack. In the final minutes she hears an
 Proscenium Stage - A stage where the audience sits on intruder listening on the downstairs phone, and then she
one side only. picks out footsteps coming up the stairs. She hastily calls
the police for help, and just before they answer the
 In-the-round Stage - An in-the-round stage is positioned
phone, her terrified screams let the audience know that
at the center of the audience. There is audience around
she has been caught by the killer.
the whole stage.
 The drama ends when the killer picks up the phone,
 Traverse - A stage where the audience sits on two sides.
explains to the phone operator that he's fine, and says
THEATER TERMINOLOGIES
“Sorry, wrong number”.
 Blocking - The planning and working out of the
movements of actors on stage.

 Cross - A movement from one part of the stage to
another.
 Position - The direction an actor is facing relative to the
audience, but from actor’s perspective.
 Gesture - An expressive movement of the body or limbs.
 Tableau - A silent and motionless depiction of a scene
created by actors, often from a picture.
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
 Lucille Fletcher is the author of the play Sorry, Wrong
Number.
 She is best known for her suspense classic “Sorry, Wrong
Number”, originally a radio play, later a novel, TV play and
motion picture.
 There are 4 main characters in the story and these are:
Mrs. Stevenson – a bedridden, querulous, self-centered
neurotic woman.
Mr. Stevenson – the husband of Mrs. Stevenson.
Operator – the one she calls to help her out contact his
husband’s office.
Sergeant Duffy – the policeman.
George – the hit man.
 The drama begins with Mrs. Stevenson attempting to call
her husband, who is working late. Frustrated with the
busy signal, she seeks the help of the operator who
connects her through to what she assumes is her
husband's office phone. Instead of hearing his familiar
voice, she listens in on a conversation where two men are
plotting a murder. The victim is a woman, home alone,
who lives near a bridge. The men plan for the attack to
take place just as the train crosses the bridge at exactly
11:15pm, so the sound will mask any screams from the
victim.
 Horrified by what she hears, Mrs. Stevenson calls the
operator to demand that she trace the source of this call.
The operator explains that only the police can push
through a request like that, and so begins 20 minutes of
calls to the police, telephone operators, and even to the
phone company's Chief Operator.
 The drama culminates in a scene where Mrs. Stevenson
becomes certain that she's the target of the murder; after