Drama therapy

Script Analysis: The Given Circumstances and Background Story In the well-made play Better Living by George F Walker, the world of the play is shaped around the effect of Tom, the family’s absent Father returning after many years of financial and emotional despair. Through the mechanical analysis the background story shows the struggle of working class families and how the background story shapes the characters prior to the curtains opening that also later affects their decisions in the play.…

gather different perspectives 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,…

In Poetics, Aristotle defines the genre of tragedy, which has long been respected as the only efficient and effective model for attaining true tragic effect. Despite this tradition, Shakespeare’s plays deviate from this framework, but are still revered as respected Renaissance tragedies. By Aristotelian definitions, neither King Lear nor Othello are ideal tragedies, but nonetheless they both adeptly accomplish the aim of tragedy. Both plays still arouse feelings of pity and fear, despite varying…

The chapter by Scodel on Sophoclean Tragedy introduces the reader to the dynamic and catastrophic world (of what is left) of Sophocleans’ dramas. He introduces the writer, his tragedies, and all the elements that constitute the dramas. Scodel delves into the components Sophocles utilized to create the unique dramas and engaging characters. Scodel uses specific examples from various tragedies to convey the style, the tradition, and the portrayal of characters. Finally Scodel introduces Sophocles…

measure to the female viewer. This is particularly valid for cleanser musical dramas and their interweaving endless storylines. "The opposition of one story for the most part leads into others and progressing plots frequently join parts of semi-determined clashes" (Cantor and Pingree,1983:22). One of the plot gadgets that is related a great deal with this classification is the Cliffhanger, it is suspected that cleanser musical drama 's prevalence depends on this an extraordinary arrangement to…

The evolution of theater through the centuries has been a gradual yet inevitable affair. It is through the constant globalization of ideas, creations, and concepts that theatre has expanded through the years; many times not losing its original essence. In this paper I will discuss the various staging conventions in different periods of theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing…

Hegel begins by describing poetry as a form that manifests ideas into concrete actuality, rather than abstract feeling (p. 960). From the inner imagination comes the formation of material in poetry–but this material is not made poetic by being harboured in ideas, but that it is being harboured in an artistic imagination. Here, Hegel defines the artistic imagination as to keep the abstract universality of thought separate from the sensuously concrete objects. Poetry employs language as an…

After the play was performed for the first time in the year 2000, a year after Kane’s death, the play drew polarizing reviews. The drama critic, Michael Billington, described the play as the, “75-minute suicide note,” however, this is not the approach Troyanovsky took when it came to stage his own production of the play. When asked Troyanovsky about whether he thought the audience still…

Through the “Where Am I?” and “When Am I There?” portion of The Gister Method Alberti gives us some very practical uses and ways to discover the where is the character is and when they are there in order of expand the wholeness of a character. We have started to discover the importance of the given circumstances through monologue rehearsals and the impact that it makes on the overall tone and objectives in a piece of text. Throughout this chapter we are exposed to many aspects of the “Where Am I…

Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” features complex characters who are different than they appear. Nora and Torvald each undergo a transformation of their character from the start of the play until the finish. Torvald begins the play appearing very strong and confident, but by the end he is broken down to a scared and unhappy man who is holding onto an image of himself to receive respect from all he encounters. Additionally, Nora experiences a similar transformation of moving from a wife who…