Abstract
Maria Knebel is one of the most influential scholars in the field of Drama Analysis. Her work with Stanislavsky has been foundational in the history of theatre: she devised the method of Action Analysis to read the play as a score of actions to be executed by the actors. This paper aims at encoding Knebel’s principles in a formal representation using a computational ontology (Drammar) to prove its expressiveness and to test its efficacy in a production point of view. As an example we use Knebel’s analysis of Pogodin’s Kremlin Chimes.
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The names of the instances we use here do not entail any specific meaning; they only aim to the comprehensibility of the analysis.
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Albert, G., Pizzo, A., Lombardo, V., Damiano, R., Terzulli, C. (2016). Bringing Authoritative Models to Computational Drama (Encoding Knebel’s Action Analysis). In: Nack, F., Gordon, A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_25
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