Drama

because European culture was founded on the classical authors of Greece and Rome. From the Renaissance until the twentieth century a formal education in a European school was based on, or at least included, Latin authors such as Virgil and Cicero, and plays by Seneca and Terence. The Greek texts used included stories from The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer; and many of the plays first performed centuries before by Aeschylus and Aristophanes, Sophocles and Menander, as well as the writings of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. The performances of plays in the Greek culture were as part of a religious festival not in the sense of a ritual offering of an art in the form of drama but as a celebration with and for the god. The young men were called komos and their songs were called comedies. It is believed that drama developed from narrative songs in the dithyramb verse, first given by a single person and later performed by a chorus. At first there was no identification of characters by separate voices but eventually a second voice was introduced and at least part of the sung narrative became dialogue. The actor could play the hero or the god and the chorus respond as the soldiers or the worshippers or whatever was required by the story. And from this came the style of Greek tragedy with its use of a chorus and first one then two and then three actors playing the single voice parts, and the development of dramatic action. There are nineteen plays by Euripides (c480- 406BCE),…

of process drama and assess the efficacy of using this as a teaching strategy for secondary school drama classes. I have attained research from various authors, including Research in Drama Education as well as other sources. My hypothesis prior to analysing and synthesising is that process drama is an effective teaching strategy, but it is not the only effective teaching strategy. This paper will not only explain what process drama as a teaching strategy involves, but it will examine,…

arts for Educators: Assessment 2 Drama Responding. Drama elements or “the elements”(Dinham,2011) how it’s referred to in delivering in authentic arts education, is building blocks of drama employed in shaping the dramatic action to create meaning in a film, book and song. These elements are important in dramatic performances because it shows you the “tools” you can work with to shape the dramatic presentation of ideas. By having the elements in your performance it enhances the performance and it…

Medical drama has always been a fairly popular genre on television, but it has grown so much within the past few years. What exactly is medical drama? A medical drama is a televised show that has a setting of a hospital, or surgery room, and typically has characters acting as doctors or nurses. During these medical shows more events happen beyond the medical part, and goes further than the events that pertain to the characters’ job. A typical medical drama portrays some aspects of characters’…

interdisciplinary views on the rasa bhava. However, the proposed book, building on these works, attempts to emphasize that Bharata’s Natyahshastra descriptors of rasa and bhava can be employed to examine theatre productions by developing a novel apparatus. This is the core theme of the next chapter. Chapter Two is entitled ‘The Proposed Model: Natyashastra-based Approach to analyse Theatre Production’. The first section in this chapter details various types of natya (drama or performance)…

The show “Brain Candy Live!” by Adam Savage, from Mythbusters, and Michael Stevens, youtube channel Vsauce, shows how much theatre adapts to culture. Theatre can be described as live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama (Fraser 1). Now, “Brain Candy Live!” is not a typical theatrical production and can only be described as science theatre where it essentially follows the plot of one big science experiment. In the show, Adam…

Multilevel sets, flashback device and role switching are the noted theatrical techniques of Dattani to juxtapose the past and the present effectively.The use of multi-level sets helps in connecting the past with present. “Mahesh Dattani’s plays are played out on multi-level sets where interior and exterior become one, and geographical locations collapse. In short, his settings are as fragmented as the families who inhabit them” (Dhawan and Pant 35). It is interesting to note the comments of John…

This week’s reading topic is about dramas. In the HuffPost article “ Are You Addicted to Drama” by Tom Ferry, it discusses the central question: “Why are there so many drama queens? The article states that the common mistake that people make when dealing with dramatic events is to allow themselves to get stuck into it. At the end, it is how you feel that determines your attitude. Then the attitude determine your actions which determines the outcomes. In addition, there is a perceived benefit…

I set up my classes to be a bit easier in my first year of high school, as to allow some time for an adjustment period; and I do love occupational ed classes. So I decided to sign up for drama tech. Drama tech is an entire class dedicated to all technical aspects of theatre, such as building and painting the sets, advertising, running sound and lighting equipment, among other things. This class was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. The freedom and responsibility that this class gives you is…

Solo dramas, like the one I used in my classroom, are superb educator tools, allowing a teacher to take on a person or characters’ perspective and dramatically convey important facts or ideas to the students. Through the use of a monologue, a teacher can add a missing voice from a book, tell a story from the perspective of a historical character, or bring focus to a social issue (Kemeh, 2015). The monologue often comes from an unexpected viewpoint, giving a voice where there was not one before.…