Drama

Faculty Of Education- First Year Primary- English Department

Lecture (1)
-Drama is :
a play written by (a dramatist). acted on stage (by actors and actresses) directed (by a director) watched (by an audience)

- Drama : written to be acted , It depends on (Dialogue) - Novel : written to be read , It depends on (Conversation) - Conversation :
An informal talk involving a small group of people or only two are talking together and no one wait for the other to speak or stop.

- Dialogue :
Between two persons, Between the speaker ( The I ) and the listener ( The You ).

- Monologue :
A long speach told by one person that stops other people from speaking or expressing an opinion. Between one person and the audience.

- Stage Manager :
A person who is responsible for the stage , lights , scenery , etc .. during the performance of a play in a theatre. He also chooses the good play to be pefrormed on the stage.

- Performance : acting on the stage. - Setting : the place and the time at which the action of a play takes palce. - The Elements Of Performance :
Stage Actors & actresses Audience

- Three Class :
High class. Middle class. Low class.
Alaa Said Abo Elmagd -1-

Drama

Faculty Of Education- First Year Primary- English Department

Lecture (2)
Drama has become immensely important in our time , People now see more drama than ever before and they are more directly influenced , conditioned , programmed by drama than ever before. Drama has become one of the principal vehicles of information , one of the prevailing methods of thinking about life and its situations. Today Dramatic performance can reach its audiences in a multitude of ways : through the cinema , TV , videotape , radio and cassette-recordings. Drama has become one of the principal means of communications of ideas and modes of human behaviour in our civilization. Drama provides some of the principal role models by which individuals form their identity and ideals , sets patterns of communal behaviour and forms values and aspirations Drama has become part of the collective fantasy life of the masses with the adventures of the heroes of TV series , the comic characters of situation comedy , the powerful demi-gods of the cinema taking the place occupied by the heroes of the popular culture , folklore and myth of previous ages. More than ever , there is a big need for us to understand how drama formulates and transmits its messages , what techniques it employs to convey them to its audience and how that audience can and does grasp , ingest and understand the meaning of these messages explicit or implicit , consciously understood or subliminally absorbed. From the very beginnings of the theoretical thinking about the ways drama achieves its effects , the question of how drama works its effects has been approached in a severely practical manner Aristotles Poetics ( the most influential theoretical work about drama in its whole long history ) derives its conclusions , which have often assumed the authority of unbreakable rules , from considerations of what kinds of actions , what kinds of characters would exercise the most powerful emotional effect upon an audience.

Alaa Said Abo Elmagd

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