DRAMA Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. Drama is a discrete skill in itself. Drama is also a tool which is flexible‚ versatile and applicable among all areas of the curriculum. A drama is a serious performance in a play‚ a movie‚ or a televised production. It is sometimes applied to real-life events that have a similar serious nature‚ such as a trial or a disaster. Drama assists in the development • the use of imagination‚ • powers of creative self expression
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The Origins of Drama: an Introduction The word drama comes from the Greek meaning “to act‚ do or perform”‚ and it is in the several subtle and diverse meanings of “to perform” that drama can be said to have begun. All communities accept that their later drama has roots in pre-history. Anthropologists have shown that primitive societies used (and in certain cases still use) role-playing in teaching the codes and behaviour required to live and survive in that society; for example‚ to teach
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A Brief History of Drama The time period from about 1650 to 1920 was ever changing in the world of drama. Neo-classicism sprung up from Greek and Roman models in Europe during the Enlightenment‚ Romanticism struck the Globe in the 1800’s based on principles like emotion‚ intuition and seeking God. During and after the 1800’s naturalism and realism began to play major roles in the area of drama. Naturalists such as August Strindberg and realists such as Henrik Ibsen demonstrate an entirely different
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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DRAMA: the specific mode of fiction represented in performance‚ from a Greek word meaning "action‚" "to do‚" or "to act". The enactment of drama in theatre‚ performed by actors on a stage before an audience‚ presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts‚ unlike other forms of literature‚ is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA * Music/Rhythm: Aristotle - the rhythm
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The Drama of the Anxious Child In Time magazine‚ Lawrence J. Cohen writes an editorial titled‚ The Drama of the Anxious Child. In this article Cohen taps into childhood anxiety and what kind of effect parents have while they grow up. Cohen makes the claim that childhood anxiety is on the rise at every level‚ “from fears of monsters under the bed to phobias and panic attacks to severe anxiety patterns.” The claim of this editorial isn’t the first thing that Cohen writes‚ he starts with some statistics
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response and/or plot development. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (n.pag.)‚ drama can be defined as‚ “a composition in verse or prose intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue and typically designed for theatrical performance.” In the two plays that I have selected‚ drama is definitely a depiction of life. The Ritual by Zeno Obi Constance and Your Handsome Captain by Simone Schwarz-Bart
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Scene 1st Drawing room dad and the minister of the education relaxing on the sofa‚ his son watching movie 3 idiots and very much inspired by that‚ after watching cinema he went to his dad and asking…. Sucking his thumb he moved towards his dad on knees….. Son: dad I want to do engineering Dad; why Son: because I want to be like ranchod das chachan. Dad; what? Son: please dad Dad; what is in doing engineering‚ there is no career in engineering‚ you have to work hard and nothing to earn
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I was the oldest of seven little boys and girls‚ who couldn’t understand what was going on. We were sitting in the hospital waiting room‚ some of us screaming and playing‚ others just silently crying and me‚ I was sitting next to my father‚ taking his hand into mine. The minutes seamed like hours‚ everything was so slow. Time passed and my brothers and sisters began to fall asleep all over the room‚ but my dad didn’t care‚ he just stood in the chair‚ with his hands covering his eyes. He wouldn’t
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‘Bassett’ Introduction- For our task to explore play texts we were to examine James Graham’s play called ‘Bassett’. We had 6 lessons to explore aspects of the play which followed reading the text. In each lesson we learnt something different about the story and investigated‚ in different ways‚ key parts of the play using the strategies of still image‚ narration‚ role play‚ cross cutting‚ and imagination. We used the mediums of movement and mime‚ spoken language‚ space and levels‚ sound‚
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