Republic of the Philippines

MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
AND HUMANITIES
Fatima, General Santos City

Literature and
Combined Arts

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INTRODUCTION

THE PLOT GRAPH

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA
role, character
and relationships
voice and movement
space and time
language, ideas, dramatic
meaning, mood and
atmosphere, and symbol

TYPES OF
DRAMA

TRAGEDY
a play written in a serious,
sometimes impressive or elevated
style, in which things go wrong and
cannot be set right except at great
cost or sacrifice.
Aristotle said that tragedy should
purge our emotions by evoking pity
and fear (or compassion and awe)
in us, the spectators.

COMEDY
a play written in a kindly or
humorous, perhaps bitter or
satiric vein, in which the
problems or difficulties of the
characters are resolved
satisfactorily,
Low characters as opposed to
noble; characters not always
changed by the action of the
play;
based upon observation of life.

MELODRAMA
a play in which the characters
are types rather than individuals
the story and situations
exaggerated to the point of
improbability or sensationalism
and the language and emotion
over-emphasized

FARCE
a comedy in which story,
character, and especially situations
are exaggerated to the point of
improbability
Fast moving
uses such theatrical devices as
duplications, reversals, repetitions,
surprises,
disguises,
chance
encounters, often many doors and
closets.

Tragic Comedy
a play with the sincerity
and earnestness of tragedy
but without its inevitability of
impending disaster
with the kindly and tolerant
attitude of comedy but
without its underlying spirit of
humour;
uses tense situations and
moments of extreme conflict,
but the tragedy is averted and
transcended.

Improvisation / Let's Pretend

Role Plays
Mime
Masked Drama
Puppet Plays
Performance Poetry
Radio Drama

Improvisation / Let's Preten

A scene is set, either by
the teacher or the
children, and then with
little or no time to
prepare a script the
students perform before
the class.

Role Plays
Students
are
given
a
particular role in a scripted
play. After rehearsal the play
is performed for the class,
school or parents.

Mime
Children use only facial
expressions and body
language to pass on a
message tcript to the rest
of the class.

Masked
Drama

The main props are masks. Children

then feel less inhibited to perform
and overact while participating in this
Masked
Drama
form of drama.
Children
are given
specific parts to play with a formal
script. Using only their voices they
must create the full picture for the
rest of the class. Interpreting content
and expressing it using only the
voice.

Noh Drama
Aristocratic and elliptical in style and content.
survived as a rituallized art form for over 600
years inj China.

Puppet Plays

Children use
puppets to say and
do thngs that they
may feel too
inhibited to say or do
themselves.

Performance Poetry
Performance Poetry
While reciting a poem the
children are encourage to
act out the story from the
poem.

Radio Drama
Similar to script reading
with the addition of other
sound affects, The painting
of the mental picture is
important

Radio drama (or audio drama,

audio play, radio play, radio
theater) is a dramatized, purely
acoustic performance, broadcast
on radio or published on audio
media, such as tape or CD.

THE EVOLUTION OF RADIO DRAMA

The Early Years 1920s

The Golden Years 1930s-1940s

The Silent Years 1950s-1990s
The Rennaissance 2000-2011

The Future 2012-????

The Early Years 1920s

diverse
programming
fixed
time/fixed
place/ with others
networks
take
control of serious
amateur

Advertising
homogenizes
content.

The Golden Years 1930s-1940s

Vaudeville to
Voltaire
Domestic
escape from
depression and
WWII
Corporate
sponsors foot the
bill
Networks

The Silent Years 1950s-1990s

Radio Programs,
sponsors and
audiences defect to
TV
Enthusiasts keep
genre alive,
Sporadic,Limited
offering on NPR.

The Rennaissance 2000-2011

Podcasts/satellite
and public
radio/audiobooks
Listen anytime,
anywhere with other
activities
Professionals/
serious amateurs/
established publishers
Downloads-free and
paid,

The Future 2012-????

Orphaned medium
finds home
Interactive
approach
One-stop
shopping business
model
Cultural icons
support.

These conventions are

conveyed in stage drama via :
VERBAL TECHNIQUES: essentially
what we learn through the dialogue,
what characters say.
NON-VERBAL TECHNIQUES;
oSTRUCTURE of the play - Acts and
Scenes
oDIRECTIONS of the playwright
oSETS
oCOSTUME
oMUSIC and sound, sound fx
oLIGHTING
oPROPS
oCHARACTER movement, gestures,
body-language, interaction

Theater is the personification of a drama on

stage.
It requires space, individuals who play
characters, and people who see the act
(audience).
Theater is a collective effort of many people,
dramatist or a playwright, a director, actors, and
technicians to make audience believe that
whatever is happening on stage is real.

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