Drama is the art of portraying imagined events through theater performance. It involves characters acted out by performers on a stage for an audience. Key elements include a beginning, middle, end with conflict; characters; and themes. Drama is an emotional, visual, and auditory art form that creates a rapport with spectators through live production. Genres include tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and different types of religious plays.
Drama is the art of portraying imagined events through theater performance. It involves characters acted out by performers on a stage for an audience. Key elements include a beginning, middle, end with conflict; characters; and themes. Drama is an emotional, visual, and auditory art form that creates a rapport with spectators through live production. Genres include tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and different types of religious plays.
Drama is the art of portraying imagined events through theater performance. It involves characters acted out by performers on a stage for an audience. Key elements include a beginning, middle, end with conflict; characters; and themes. Drama is an emotional, visual, and auditory art form that creates a rapport with spectators through live production. Genres include tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and different types of religious plays.
potential or imagined events and experiences. - Is best celebrated in theaters as scenes, situations are presented, and actors deliver lines on stage before an audience. - Is basically a literary form intended to represent experiences through a theater performance. - Imitation of an action. - Can be dramatic or comical. - Has beginning, middle and end. - It involves characters portrayed and impersonated by actors. - It has themes and morales. - It has conflict which is very significant to make the events interesting. - Series of events to be acted or performed on stage. - Projected by the characters to establish the impression that the events are lifelike before a crowd. Essential Features of Drama
1. Drama as a form of Dramatic Art –
has an emotional force or effect. 2. Drama as a form of Visual Arts – It has lights, set design, images, and etc. 3. Drama as an Auditory Art – Its lines and silences delivered by the characters bear important dramatic impacts. 4. Drama is Physically Produced Art- it creates a rapport to the audience. 5. Drama is Spectator Art – It is always open for some necessary changes, critics and reviews. 6. Drama is a Continuous Art – It has a sense of continuity and spontaneity. Genres of Drama
Tragedy – Has a disastrous and catastrophic end.
Comedy – Its main purpose is to amuse the viewing crowd. Tragicomedy – a combination of tragic and humorous elements. Closet Drama – a written work or play which is intended to be read , not performed on stage. Farce - is primarily amusing and entertaining. Characters and scenes are mainly exaggerated. Melodrama – accompanied with music and with a song. Morality/Mystery Play- represents good and evil forces . Miracle Plays- stories taken from the bible and the lives of the saints. Elements of Drama
Setting- Time and place
Characters/Actors- Persons involved Plot- Flow of events. Dialogue- Script or lines. Theme- Central Message