DRAM

DEFINITION OF DRAMA
1. Drama come from the greek word
meaning ACTION which is derived from
the verb meaning TO DO or TO ACT
2. Aristotle mentioned that the drama is
IMITATION
3. Drama is a form of literature created
through dialogues and written primarily
to be performed, not read.
4. Is created by a PLAYWRIGHT and a
presentation of action on a stage
before, in front of an audience and
prepared through collaborative mode of

ELEMENTS
OF DRAMA

ARISTOTLE
CONSIDERED THIS
SIX THINGS TO BE
ESSENSIAL TO GOOD
DRAMA

1.PLOT
2.THEME
3.CHARACTE
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4.DIALOGUE
5.CONVENTI
ON
6.GENRE
7.AUDIENCE

PLOT
- the sequence events or
incidents of which the story
composed this is what
happens in a play. Plot refers
to the action; the basic story
line of a play

THEME

- the controlling idea or central

insight. While plot refers to the play
theme refers to the meaning of the
play. Theme is the main idea or
lesson to be learned from a play. In
some cases the theme of a play is
obvious other times it is quiet
subtle.

CHARACTER
-someone of something in
which story developed.
Character are the people
(sometimes animals or idea)
portrayed in a characters
who move the action, or plot
of the play forward.

FLAT VS ROUND : flat character is

known by one or traits. He/She is
mentioned by another character inside
the play but not performing. Round
character is complex and many-sided.
Performing and existing inside the play
STATIC VS DYNAMIC : static character
remains the same from the beginning of
the plot to the end. Dynamic character
undergo permanent change.

DIALOGUE

- this refers to the word

written by the playwright and
spoken by the character in
the play. The dialogue help
move the action of the play
along.

CONVENTION
- this is the techniques and
methods used by the
playwright and director to
create the desired stylistic
effects (include music, props
and costume, sound/lightning
effect)

GENRE

- refers to the types of

play. Some examples of
different genres include
comedy, tragedy mystery
and historical play

AUDIENCE
- this is the group of people who
watch the play. Many playwright
and actors considered audience to
be the most important element of
drama, as all of the effort put into
writing and producing a play is for
the enjoyment of the audience

KINDS OF
DRAMA

1.COMEDY
2.TRAGEDY
3.FORCE
4.MELODRAM
A
5.MUSICAL

COMEDY
- when we talk about comedy, we
usually refer to place that are
light in tone, that are typically have
happy ending. The intent of a
comedic play is to make the
audience laugh. In modern theatre,
there are many styles of comedy
ranging from realistic story, where
the humor is derived from the real
life situation, to outrageous

HIGH COMEDY AKA PURE COMEDY

- does has an appeal to the intellectual
and arouses thoughtful laughter by dis
playing the follist of human behavior and
social manners. Features!! Sarcasm,
anger and intellectual humor
LOW COMEDY AKA ELEMENTARY
COMEDY
- lucking in seriousness and has little
intellectual appeal by exhibiting the
ridiculousness of human.
Feature of quarrelling and fighting, nosy

TRAGEDY
- is one of the oldest form of drama;
each meaning has change since the
earliest days of stage plays. in ancient
times, a tragedy was often an historica
dramas featuring the down fall of a
great man. In modern theatre the
definition is a bit loser. Tragedy usually
involves serious subject matter and the
death of one or more main character
this place really have a happy ending.

EXAMPLES:
Romeo and juliet

FARCE
- is sub does category of
comedy, characterize by
greatly exaggerated
characters and situation.
Characters tends to be one
dimensional and often follow
stereotypical behavior farces
typically involve mistaken
identities lucks of physical

EXAMPLES:
The comedy of errors by
william shakespear
Noises off by michael
frayn
What the butler saw by
joe orton

MELO DRAMA
- is another type of exaggerated
drama. As in farce the characters
tend to be simplified and 1
dimensional the formulaic story
line of a classic melodrama
typically involve a villain a heroin,
and a hero who must rescue
heroine from the villain

EXAMPLE
S:

Wuthring heights 1939

Mildread spears 1945
Brief encounter 1946

MUSICAL
- in musical theatre, the story
is told not only trough dialogue
but trough music and dance.
Musical are often comedic, also
many involve subject matter.
Most involve large cast and
lavish sets and costume

EXAMPLE
S:

Miss saigon
Hair spray
Les miserables
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