UML and object oriented drama

Abstract

Readers of this article have probably seen, at least once, diagrams produced using the UML (Unified Modeling Language). Some of you have perhaps used UML for your own work and know that the UML can also be applied to a variety of analytic disciplines, ranging from economics to electronics, from mathematics to medicine, etc. However, you are less likely to have encountered UML in the strictly artistic domain of Theatre. Yes ... Right in the theatre. In this article we illustrate a unique experiment: the application of the UML for analysis of dramatic words. Daily interdisciplinary tests and hybridisations occur among the different contemporary arts; theatre meets new technologies more and more frequently and it turns out to be a fascinating and complex meeting. As a consequence, the problem of identifying new tools that the dramatist and/or director can use to analyse a text arises. Among these tools, it is important to select which is to be used in order to facilitate the sharing of the project among the different participants (director, dramatist, actors, etc.). The discipline of computer science can provide us with a valid solution to this problem, where comparable problems are, typically, solved by means of UML.