Drama therapy

Oedipus Rex is an ancient Greek tragedy featuring a theme of fate and free will by Sophocles. It tells the tragic fate of Oedipus, king of Thebes. Oedipus is facing the dilemma of whether to investigate the claims of the blind prophet, Tiresias, who foretells that Oedipus will kill his father and lay with his mother. Not taking kindly to such accusation on his kingly ego, Oedipus berates the prophet and returns a different accusation, that Teiresias is conspiring with Creon to steal the throne…

Aristotle’s criteria for a tragedy involves three main subjects: values, characters, and a conclusion; William Shakespeare’s Macbeth incorporates these critical topics. The values are supernatural powers which determines what is right and what is wrong. The character in a tragedy must be noble by birth and by action. In the conclusion, the character must understand why he or she fell, accept punishment, and order must be restored. By including these, Macbeth fits Aristotle’s criteria for a…

discuss and go into great depth on Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon and the postdramatic theatre elements that are represented in both of them. Muller’s statement in Steegmans, After Postdramatic Theatre refers to a crisis of drama, which consists of the apparent inability to convey the complexity of the modern world. It’s that the problems of the present exceeds the representational capacity of the situational dramatic art. When we look at postdramatic theater all…

The arts of the western world have been largely dominated by the artistic standards established by the Greeks of the classical period. It is from the Greek word “theatron” meaning “a place for sitting”. It is said that the Greeks were the first people to erect special structures to bring audiences and theatrical performers together. The theatres were normally located near a populated area at the bottom, or cut out of a carefully selected, sloping hillside overlooking a seascape, plain, or city.…

Altman’s theory suggests a semantic/syntactic approach to help solve the contradictions within genres studies and offer a model to analyze genre. Schatz’s assessment of Badland (1973), directed by Terrence Malick would be that the film’s crime and drama genre has a mixture of elements from both the determinate and indeterminate space, which would make it difficult to classify under a single genre. Furthermore, Schatz would also argue that it would be difficult to determine…

The movie High Noon portrays the elements of a Greek tragedy. In High Noon, we see a very close relationship between what Aristotle described as the essential elements to a tragedy and what we see unfold throughout the movie. We see all of the six elements; plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song, shown in some form throughout the movie, although, Aristotle says that plot and character are primary, so those will be the two elements of focus. In exploring plot and character, the…

negative gossiping happens a lot. It may be the producers telling the castmates to do it, or it could be the castmates doing it to get “camera time” but either way there is a lot of drama and gossiping. As human beings, people love the drama and love to watch it on television. So that is why people gossip and start drama in reality television. With this essay ending, there are positive and negative gossiping. In the play, it shows both positive and negative. By having Beatrice and Benedict…

exchanges with these actors which changed my view of them, or at least how I viewed myself in relation to their amazing talent. One actor I understudied is a man who is a joy to watch in any play. He is consistently employed around town performing drama and comedies, classical works and Shakespeare, contemporary plays and musicals; he can do it all. He work has been recognized with awards and he is a sought after teacher for other actors. If I hadn’t made it clear by now I greatly admired him…

There are many types of people in this world. Some live their life to the fullest expecting great things for them in the future. Then, there are those who just work just to make a living. In the book, Death of a Salesman, Willy the protagonist of the book, was the typical working family man who works to support his family. As he supports his family, his own world is falling apart. His false reality is eating him inside out. Things are just not going the way that they are meant to be. Willy was…

women facing many challenges like sexuality, desire, and growth a she changes from scene to scene. Marie has two love interest in Turk and Bruce that shed light on the character that Marie is. In Drama for students by David Galens, Sheri Metzger who is a professional writer who specializes in literature and drama states “Inge was ahead of his time when, through Lola, he points out the inequities between women and men…But there is a double standard governing the behavior of men and women.” (114…