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Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh Structure and Form Being a completely naturalistic play, Abigail's party pursues all of the rules of modern day naturalistic theatre to creating a 'Slice of life' on stage. It follows the structure of Aristotle's "Well made play": Exposition Development Resolution Exposition: is the introduction to the characters and the situation; development: the plot/characters develop, and the play continues and unfolds, revealing the characters for who they really are; resolution: the play deepens further; all loose ends tie together, leading to a denouement. Abigail's Party also obeys Aristotle's 'Three Unities" of Time, Place and Action. The unity of time, 'Stage time equals real time' (often a clock is placed as part of the set to reinforce this); the unity of place, the play in set in one place the whole time; the unity of action, there is continuous action where there are no jumps forward or backward in time....

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