The Drama Club

Performing 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…

The six elements that belong to every tragedy are the plot, characters, diction, thought, spectacle, and melody. The most significant elements of tragedy are the plot and character. The plot is the arrangement of the incidents in the story, whereas, the character is the morality given to the characters of the tragedy. Although the character defines the qualities of the character, the action of the plot itself makes them feel the emotions. Therefore, the characters contribute to the action of…

The Death Decision of Doctor Faustus Tragedy is a play that shows the downfall of a human with an unhappy ending. Tragedy usually happens to an average man who makes poor decisions in life and ends in pain. In the play of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Faustus’ life is tragic because he is a respected scholar, but he chooses to spend eternity in hell. Marlowe portrays the life of a successful Christian scholar, Doctor Faustus, who manages to receive his doctorate in theology and divinity…

Having adopted Sartre’s existentialism as the philosophical basis for his approach while creating his masterpieces, Beckett has become the founder of the Absurd Drama in British Literature. When his plays were first performed, people who were accustomed to the traditional theatre were hostile to his drama. However, particularly after World War II, their losses and fears have made them feel close to Beckett’s…

In his play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo, a playwright and left-wing activist, uses comic elements to narrate the story of the suspicious death of a railwayman and anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli. Although the details of the case have been twisted by Fo, this farce is successful in provoking thought in the minds of the audience. Pinelli’s name is not present in the dialogues, but the prologue states that the play is a reconstruction of the case. As per the police report the anarchist…

actually heroines, however their characters and actions within the play are deemed as not typically heroic, without obliging the audience to like the characters. The sisters mainly endure the natural forces in the play. Chekhov like Maeterlinck, finds drama in stillness and silence moving into a more Symbolist direction. Each act within the play begins with hope of promising activity but later on ends in stillness (Rebellato, 2010). For instance, in act three, there is a beginning of promising…

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is a satire that uses comedy to highlight the social issues of the day. It is also based on a Greek mythological lady statue of the same name. According to Blank Shaw’s Pygmalion is a story that is original witty and the characters have recognizable personalities. The plays plot begins when two phonetician make a bet to turn a street merchant; a flower girl into a lady who would pass as a ditches, teaching her how to speak, act and dress like a proper lady…

Eric Birling is a seemingly less important character in J.B. Priestley’s thriller, An Inspector Calls, but upon deep analysis, we can see that Eric is a character of great significance and has a huge impact on the play. This can be seen through the structure and shape of this whodunit and some of the language and stage directions. Eric is a very effective tool that Priestley uses to keep the tension going; be it the difference of opinion he has with his father or the suspicious behaviour, or…

Semester One Final Essay: Rethinking The Frogs Debate The two playwrights I have chosen for the purpose of this essay are Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known by his stage name as Molière, and Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828-1906). Molière was born on January 15th in Paris, France and is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. I have chosen Molière as one of my two playwrights because I believe that one of the ways to ‘save society’ is through comedy. Ibsen…

This essay is an analysis of The Theatre Practice’s production of I Came at Last to the Seas held at Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre, directed by Kuo Jian Hong. Written by playwright Wu Xi, the play inverses common understanding of Buddhist philosophy, exploring the unrest and instability of the six roots of sensation through the interwoven narratives of the play’s six central characters. The play is an inquiry into the ideas of belonging and identity: both culturally, as a Chinese in the Chinese…