DRAMA
Read through this webpage, focusing most on the TYPES OF DRAMA. Which 3 genres (TYPES OF DRAMA) might be your favorites to act out? List each in your journal, and explain your choices with examples of what you know about each on and what you enjoy most about each genre. When you're finished with your journal, you will be reading through some of the plays and writing down your comments and favorite characters.
TYPES OF DRAMA
1. Tragedy -- In general, tragedy involves the ruin of the leading characters. WE LEARN FROM THE CHARACTER'S MISTAKES.
2. Comedy -- is lighter drama in which the leading characters overcome the difficulties which are temporarily.
3. Farce -- When comedy involves ridiculous or hilarious complications without regard for human values, it becomes farce.
4. Fantasy -- A play sometimes, but not always, in comic spirit in which the author gives free reign to his fantasy, allowing things to happen without regard to reality.
5. Melodrama -- Like farce, melodrama pays almost no attention to human values, but its object is to give a thrill instead of a laugh. Often good entertainment without any literary value.
Drama is the most dependent of art forms -- director, actors, scene and costume designers must interpret before the audience does.
THE PLACE OF AN ACTOR
1. The player should respect his play, his part, his fellow players, and his audience.
2. He should have imagination enough to create character for us instead of merely exploiting his own personality.
3. He should have a technical equipment in his 'voice, facial expression, bodily poise, gesture, and by-play that enables him to project the character as he conceives it.
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