What is Drama?

Drama – is the art of depicting or portraying

potential or imagined events and
experiences.
- Is best celebrated in theaters as scenes,
situations are presented, and actors deliver
lines on stage before an audience.
- Is basically a literary form intended to
represent experiences through a theater
performance.
- Imitation of an action.
- Can be dramatic or comical.
- Has beginning, middle and end.
- It involves characters portrayed
and impersonated by actors.
- It has themes and morales.
- It has conflict which is very significant
to make the events interesting.
- Series of events to be acted or
performed on stage.
- Projected by the characters to
establish the impression that the
events are lifelike before a crowd.
 Essential Features of Drama

1. Drama as a form of Dramatic Art –

has an emotional force or effect.
2. Drama as a form of Visual Arts – It
has lights, set design, images, and etc.
3. Drama as an Auditory Art – Its lines
and silences delivered by the characters
bear important dramatic impacts.
4. Drama is Physically Produced Art- it
creates a rapport to the audience.
5. Drama is Spectator Art – It is always
open for some necessary changes, critics
and reviews.
6. Drama is a Continuous Art – It has a
sense of continuity and spontaneity.
 Genres of Drama

 Tragedy – Has a disastrous and catastrophic end.

 Comedy – Its main purpose is to amuse the viewing
crowd.
 Tragicomedy – a combination of tragic and
humorous elements.
 Closet Drama – a written work or play which is
intended to be read , not performed on stage.
 Farce - is primarily amusing and entertaining.
Characters and scenes are mainly exaggerated.
 Melodrama – accompanied with music and with a
song.
 Morality/Mystery Play- represents good and evil
forces .
 Miracle Plays- stories taken from the bible and the
lives of the saints.
 Elements of Drama

 Setting- Time and place

 Characters/Actors- Persons involved
 Plot- Flow of events.
 Dialogue- Script or lines.
 Theme- Central Message