DRAMA

(The period of drama)

by:
Shinta Ainurrahma J1A016001
Ima Nurhasanah J1A016002
Dewi Candrawulan J1A016011
Pasya Al Falaqi J1A016014
Sabriah Maming J1A016016
 The origin of theatre

 Comes from a primitive religious ceremony

 Comes from a song to honor a hero in his grave

 Comes from a human penchant for listening to

stories
 Classical Greek Theatre

Characteristics :

❄ Already using the play script.

❄ The show is performed in the amphitheater.
❄ Usually, all of the actor are men.
❄ The story is about the tragedy.
❄ There are also the special players beside the
main character.
 Author:

Aeschylus (525-SM)
Shopocles (496-406 SM)
Euripides (484-406 SM)
Aristophanes (448-380 SM)
Manander (349-291 SM)
 Roman Classical Theatre
Roman theatre is adapted from Greek theatre form.

Characteristics :

 The choir no longer works to fill every scene.

 Music to complement the whole scene.

 The theme revolves around the problem of middle-class

inequality.

 Characteristics are depend on the classes.

 The whole scene takes place at home, on the street, and in the
yard.
The famous forms show in
Classical Roman :

Tragedy
Short Farce
Mime
 Medieval Century

• Drama staged for celebrating holy day of

christian

• Made based on storis in bible

• Showed on the train and pulled around the city

Showed on the train and pulled around the city
 Medieval Century
Characterization

❄ Associated to philosophy and religion

❄ Staged in public and bayar

❄ The drama has no author

 Renaissance Era

• Drama staged following the existing

structure

• Many of the manuscripts emulate the

classical drama
 Renaissance Era
Characterization

• Mythology and/or everyday life themed-story

• Using proscenium stage

• Setting and wardrobe used very innovatively

 In this era also appeared kind of theater called commedia
dell’arte
The caracterization of the commedia dell’arte:

❄ The actors and actresses freed to improvise

followed the story plot.
❄ There are three character who are always
appear; the ruler, seducer and supporting cast
❄ Plain stage setting
❄ Showed on city square or simple stages
 Elizabeth Era
In this era, in London, showed dramas by
Shakespeare
 Elizabeth Era
Characterization

• The show held at noon

• The audiences come from many different

community

• Enlivened by the food and beverages

vendor
Author in this era
William
Shakespeare
 17th century theater in Spain and Fance
The show named Autos Sacramentales with features such as:

 The characters in the story are symbolic figures, for example the
Sin, the Wise is met with a supernatural figure and ordinary
people with stories based on lifesecular and church teachings.

 Shown on a horse-drawn carriage (two levels) named carros . The

horse-drawn carriages also carry settings.

 The show was performed by a professional group always in touch

with the church.

 Performances are always interspersed with dance and at

rest filled with short Farce.
 
 The pioneer of secular
drama in Spain is Lope de
Rueda (1510-1565)
 Restoration Theater in England
Characterizations:
❄ The theme of the story is general and the audience
has know it.

❄ Female characters played by female players.

❄ The audience is only from the middle class and the

superiors.

❄ The theater building modeled like the Italian style.

❄ Performances were held at the proscenium that expanded

by adding an area called apron.

❄ Stage setting is perspective and more patterned public,

such as parks or palaces
 Theater of the 18th Century

❄ The 18th century was the first major

theater for the nobility.
❄ Showing comedy and tragedy
❄ Sustain form commedia dell'arte .
 Author:

❄ The great writer is Carlo

Goldoni
❄ The other scriptwriter is
Carlo Gozzi.  
❄ Vittorio Alfieri.
 In the nineteenth century(realism period)

❄ Romantic drama developed on 1800-

1850 because of the Neoclassical ideas
and the occurrence of the French
Revolution were faded.

❄ The characteristics of Romantic theater

performances are: script, plot, idea,
stage, settings.
 The Author:
❄ In England, the Romantic
movement was triggered by the
play script of the work

❄ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

❄ Henry James Byron,
❄ Percy Bysshe Shelley and
❄ John Keats
❄ The French Revolution - successfully
changed the lives structure and pattern
French people - presents a new movement
in the theater world on the 19 century
which encourages the creation of theme
and characterization formulas in the play
script.
 In the twentieth century

❄ Using realistic performance styles and

experimental. Through the music,
decoration, light order, and electronic
effects.

❄ Able to gives effect like the style of

symbolism, surrealism, epic, and absurd
The elements of the style are:    

❄  Combine the Presentational and

Representational elements   

❄   Eliminates the fourth wall, and

sometimes speaks directly or in contact
with the audience     

❄ Formal, everyday, poetic languages ​are

combined with some new idioms or with
languages