Introduction to Drama. Essential Questions: What is drama? Why use drama to advocate?

Types of Drama to be discussed: Flash Drama Readers Theater Found Drama Collage Guerilla Theater Learner Ob ectives: To understand dramatic structure To be able to define drama and discuss the role of drama in advocacy To loo! at various types of drama that can be used for advocacy To "rite# find# or adopt a script for a dramatic performance To discuss short plays and loo! at sections of plays that may have an environmental messa$e

%The Tempest# The &irds# Doctor 'austus# ( )idsummer *i$ht+s Dram, Drama "as considered a $enre of poetry by the ancient -ree!s. (ristotle offered drama as a $eneral term to describe forms of poetry that "ere acted. The .oman "riter /orace stated that the purpose of drama "as either to deli$ht %comedy, or instruct %tra$edy,. 0Drama is about imperfection. We don+t al"ays li!e morally $ood people.1 02ut 3uarrels out of literature# and you "ill have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.1 44 .obert Lynd 0Drama is life "ith the dull bits cut out.1 5 /itchcoc! -reat drama is all about conflict. Every scene# every line of dialo$ue must move the conflict alon$. 6o "hat is conflict? The clash of opposin$ forces. These forces can be other people# nature# society# our o"n selves# or fate or -od.

What does a successful drama need? 2onflict# characters# settin$# dramatic structure and $ood dialo$ue. 2haracters: you need at least one %dramatic monolo$ue,. 7our character should be someone "ith ma$nitude. Or importance. 6ome common person "ho stands for all of us. /e needs to be a person "ho faces some sort of conflict. The settin$8plot should reflect the time in "hich you live. If "here tal!in$ about the environment# it could be a story about a person "ho lives in a place "here there is no clean "ater and this person+s mother is dyin$ from disease associated "ith drin!in$ polluted "ater. 6o "hat+s the conflict here? What must the main character overcome? /o" "ill they overcome it? Or "ill they overcome it? Is there a solution? 6ee http:88""".e9pertvilla$e.com8video8:;<;==>"rite4drama.htm Dramatic 6tructure: E9position# incitin$ event# risin$ action# clima9# fallin$ action# resolution Dialo$ue: characters need to have a $oal every time they spea!. They "ant to $et somethin$ from the other character%s,. There must be conflict in the dialo$ue. 07our dialo$ue shouldn+t be 5 "hat+s called?too much on the nose. 7ou character shouldn+t be sayin$ e9actly "hat they+re thin!in$.1 44 )arcy @ahan 02haracters shouldn+t actually ans"er each other+s lines# they should ump off each+s lines onto somethin$ else# or turn corners or surprise people. This "ill also create movements.1 LET+6 LOO@ (T 6O)E )(6TE.7 DI(LO-AE and discuss ho" it performs the above: contains conflict and moves it alon$B the spea!ers see! some information or ob ective from each otherB the dialo$ue umps off of each others.

2L(ADIO

&enedic!# didst thou note the dau$hter of 6i$nior Leonato?

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I noted her notB but I loo!ed on her.

2L(ADIO

Is she not a modest youn$ lady?

&E*EDI2@

Do you 3uestion me# as an honest man should do# for my simple true ud$mentB or "ould you have me spea! after my custom# as bein$ a professed tyrant to their se9?

2L(ADIO

*oB I pray thee spea! in sober ud$ment.

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Why# iC faith# methin!s sheCs too lo" for a hi$h praise# too bro"n for a fair praise and too little for a $reat praise: only this commendation I can

afford her# that "ere she other than she is# she "ere unhandsomeB and bein$ no other but as she is# I do not li!e her.

2L(ADIO

Thou thin!est I am in sport: I pray thee tell me truly ho" thou li!est her.

&E*EDI2@

Would you buy her# that you in3uire after her?

2L(ADIO

2an the "orld buy such a e"el?

&E*EDI2@

7ea# and a case to put it into. &ut spea! you this "ith a sad bro"? or do you play the floutin$ Dac!# to tell us 2upid is a $ood hare4finder and Eulcan a rare carpenter? 2ome# in "hat !ey shall a man ta!e you# to $o in the son$?

2L(ADIO

In mine eye she is the s"eetest lady that ever I loo!ed on.

&E*EDI2@

I can see yet "ithout spectacles and I see no such matter: thereCs her cousin# an she "ere not possessed "ith a fury# e9ceeds her as much in beauty as the first of )ay doth the last of December. &ut I hope you have no intent to turn husband# have you?

2L(ADIO

I "ould scarce trust myself# thou$h I had s"orn the contrary# if /ero "ould be my "ife.

&E*EDI2@

IsCt come to this? In faith# hath not the "orld one man but he "ill "ear his cap "ith suspicion? 6hall I never see a bachelor of three4score a$ain? -o to# iC faithB an thou "ilt needs thrust thy nec! into a yo!e# "ear the print of it and si$h a"ay 6undays. Loo! Don Fedro is returned to see! you.

.e4enter DO* FED.O

DO* FED.O

What secret hath held you here# that you follo"ed not to LeonatoCs?

&E*EDI2@

I "ould your $race "ould constrain me to tell.

DO* FED.O

I char$e thee on thy alle$iance.

&E*EDI2@

7ou hear# 2ount 2laudio: I can be secret as a dumb manB I "ould have you thin! soB but# on my alle$iance# mar! you this# on my alle$iance. /e is in love. With "ho? no" that is your $raceCs part. )ar! ho" short his ans"er isB44With /ero# LeonatoCs short dau$hter.

2L(ADIO

If this "ere so# so "ere it uttered.

&E*EDI2@

Li!e the old tale# my lord: Cit is not so# nor Ct"as not so# but# indeed# -od forbid it should be so.C

2L(ADIO

If my passion chan$e not shortly# -od forbid it should be other"ise.

DO* FED.O

(men# if you love herB for the lady is very "ell "orthy.

2L(ADIO

7ou spea! this to fetch me in# my lord.

DO* FED.O

&y my troth# I spea! my thou$ht.

2L(ADIO

(nd# in faith# my lord# I spo!e mine.

&E*EDI2@

(nd# by my t"o faiths and troths# my lord# I spo!e mine.

2L(ADIO

That I love her# I feel.

DO* FED.O

That she is "orthy# I !no".

&E*EDI2@

That I neither feel ho" she should be loved nor !no" ho" she should be "orthy# is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me: I "ill die in it at the sta!e.

DO* FED.O

Thou "ast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty.

2L(ADIO

(nd never could maintain his part but in the force of his "ill.

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That a "oman conceived me# I than! herB that she brou$ht me up# I li!e"ise $ive her most humble than!s: but that I "ill have a recheat "inded in my forehead# or han$ my bu$le in an invisible baldric!# all "omen shall pardon me. &ecause I "ill not do them the "ron$ to mistrust any# I "ill do myself the ri$ht to trust noneB and the fine is# for the "hich I may $o the finer# I "ill live a bachelor.

'L(6/ D.()( 5 This is ust a short play that is less than ten minutes in len$th.