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Drama
Drama (Classical Greek δρᾶμα) is a literary form involving parts written for
actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning "action", drawn from the
(Classical Greek δρᾶν), "to do".
Dramas can be performed in various media: improvisation, live performance,
radio, film and-or television - and nowadays web chat. "Closet dramas" are works
written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage
directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the
plays of Seneca, Manfred by Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe
Shelley. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the
Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor. Drama is also often combined
with music and dance, such as in opera which is sung throughout, musicals which
include spoken dialogue and songs, or plays that have musical accompaniment,
such as the Japanese Noh drama.
Improvisational drama, a form of improvisational theatre, is drama that has no
set script, in which the performers take their cues from one another and the
situations (sometimes established in advance) in which their characters find
themselves to create their own dialogue as they perform. Improvisational drama
is made up on the spot using whatever space, costumes or props are available
Tool for education
See also: Applied Drama
There are many forms of educational drama these all share one common goal, to
create awareness or an understanding of an idea or issue. The following is a few
examples of the main forms in which drama is used as a tool for education.
Theatre in education (TIE) is the typical image of drama, seen since the 1960s.
Usually performed for youth groups, or schools by a drama group this form of
theatre was usually a devised piece which used abstract ideas to communicate a
message, it follows in the tradition of plays seen throughout history such as
morality plays like Everyman. This form of theatre could also be compared to
commedia del arte, and other such traveling forms of theatre.
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