This week’s article was about drama and rather or not it could be considered a significant educational technique used in a church setting. Gangel gives a few reasons why he believes drama should be used as a significant educational technique. He states that because of its vital and creative nature, drama can make stories and ideas come alive, drama can sort out complex problems in human lives through selection, and drama can teach us about life in a way that is clearer and more vivid than what we are used to living (Gangel p1). All of which are why Gangel believes drama should be used as an educational technique within the church. I, too, believe drama would be an effective educational technique used within the church. Gangel’s first point …show more content…
This meaning dramas is often focused on specific topics that an individual is able to apply directly to his or her life. For example, a drama can be based strictly on family issues, financial issues, or even personal issues. This too also enables someone to relate to the plot of a drama. As a result, he or she is on the receiving end to gain knowledge or guidance in their own life. He also believes that drama can teach us about life in a way that is clearer and more vivid than what we are used to living. This also has something to do with an individual receiving knowledge and guidance from a drama that can be applied to their …show more content…
“Drama can be very effective in pinpointing solutions to problems which people face in real life” (Gangel p2). As I stated, one can relate to a drama and apply what they have gained from it to their life. “Drama can also be used to enhance worship experiences” (Gangel p2). Drama is also commonly known as a form of art. There is purpose behind why we do what we do during church. The same is with a drama, rather written or filmed, there is a purpose. “Drama can help reveal insights into the character and personality of persons portrayed in the play” (Gangel p2). This particular statement can be related to someone reading The Bible. For example, reading about someone in The Bible, we are able to gain insight on that individuals characteristics and through that we are able to apply those same characteristics to our lives if or when we find ourselves in a similar
” Drama for Students. Ed. Anne Marie Hacht. Vol. 21.
...tory. It both pulls the reader in and demonstrates the significance of the story at the same time. It allows the reader to enjoy and understand both the story and its significance. It provides an outlet for the author’s argument that is also interesting. Understanding the purpose of such a large part of short narratives like tragedy helps understand how these stories work, how the authors construct them and what is the author’s intent. This helps make a step towards understanding literature in general. It may help explain why tragedy, something avoided in life, is often sought after in literature. Tragedy plays a role in all these categories since it takes such an important role in short fiction. This understanding starts with the idea of how tragedy provides an interesting means of displaying the argument and simultaneously drawing the reader into the narrative.
Watching a play is completely different than watching a movie. When watching a movie there are two options, either watching it at home on the couch with a bag of chips, or going to a movie theatre with a bucket of popcorn. Why do we even waste two hours of our time to sit and watch a movie? Primarily, we do watch movies to waste time. When people get bored, we watch movies to pass the time. Well, before they could make movies, people would go watch a play which is an entirely different experience than going to a movie. Many of these plays that people went to watch were written by a man named Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is probably the greatest play write of all time. Two of his plays, Much Ado about Nothing and King Lear, are both wonderful plays with different, but similar narrative structure, or plots. Much Ado about Nothing is a story about Hero and how the love of her life Claudio is planning on marrying her, however a few envious people try to ruin everything which lead to Hero faking her death and Claudio thinking Hero was unfaithful and then passing away. Yet, by the end of the play, Hero reveals herself; Claudio realized that people were lying and that Hero was being faithful and the play ends with a double wedding. In King Lear, two different families are being betrayed and two different fathers make bad decisions about their children that eventually lead to one man being blind and the other father’s demise. Yet, this isn’t all of the play according to Arthur Rosenblatt, “Besides, the plot line, involving two older men and their respective family problems, is only a small part of the play.” (Rosenblatt, Arthur S.). In Shakespeare’s plays King Lear and Much Ado about Nothing, their narrative structures have similar qu...
Finally, it is fun to study drama. It is fun to dramatise and dress up and fall over dead behind improvised curtains and fence with blackboard pointers and cook up a witches brew and come to school with a spade over your shoulder for the Graveyard Scene. It is fun, and while all the fun is being enjoyed an incredible amount of language is pouring into these students' heads, through listening, reading, watching videos and learning lines off by heart.
... in which all our emotions play a role. There are no small roles in this theatre; each feeling will lead to another. But we are playwrights, and we choose to tamper with our script merely to influence the way we want our life to turn out.
In conclusion, theatre, as is the case with most art, is a lie. However, due to the nature of the art itself, it helps bring both the creator and the audience closer to the truth, whether it is a truth about themselves, others, or their environment. Theatre forces the actor to temporarily substitute their reality for a lie, and the audience to observe the substituted realities, especially if they know the actors. Theatre brings all involved parties closer to the truth of themselves through nonstop lying.
Dramaturgy was developed by sociologist Erving Goffman, in the category of social psychology. It is part of symbolic interactionism and is used in the everyday sociological analysis. Theater theory uses theater as a metaphor to explain human behavior. From this perspective, each personality manifests itself in everyday behavior as if they are performing on stage. Identity is determined by each role. Here, the term "role" refers to the character in the script and also to the role in real life that each individual has as a mother, teacher, friend, and so on. Drama theory suggests that the performance of a person through roles is a way to join the society. In certain environments, you have different behaviors, thoughts, and behaviors to match that environment. According to dramaturgy, we have
Internal and external struggles influence people to action, be it swift and daring or cunning and low. In Shakespeare's plays, the events around and within a character often combine to cause a character to act in a manner that would be considered out of character or unnatural for the person. Shakespeare uses these characters to provide the audience with a lesson or theme; to give them something they can apply to life and see learn from. In Othello, the character he uses as an example is, in fact, Othello. Shakespeare informs his readers of how doubts caused by rumors and lies can lead to the breakdown of even a once noble person.
Drama- Students will make their quest from paper or media format to real-life. This can be done with friends in the classroom. All of the important factors should be included.
...drama has its own strict rules that can be extended to certain rules. The Plots are based on mythological stories which are well known by society. So, audience does not come to see what is going to happen, they come to see how the playwright is going to present to story. So, the differences between them are mostly in the development of story and characters.
Elizabethan times in the 1600s was a progression for the world of the theater. A period named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, it is from this period that modern day society has its foundation for the entertainment industry. From the violence that was prevalent because of the Black Death, people turned to the theater for its poetry and romance. During this time period, there were two types of theatrical performances that were available for the people’s viewing, comedies or tragedies. These two genres were never really intertwined until the time of William Shakespeare. His play, Romeo and Juliet, is an example of both a comedy and a tragedy. It starts off as a comedy with Romeo weeping like a baby because of his love Rosaline, who did not love him back and ends as a tragedy when Romeo and Juliet, a pair of star crossed lovers, commit suicide because the lost of each other. It was also during Shakespeare’s time that writer were finally acknowledged by the people. Before this time, writers were not considered upper classman. Another group of people that began to rise into a higher social class were the actors. Actresses were not present back then because women were not allowed on stage. It was considered unladylike to have a female actor. Men played all the parts. Theater owners were dependent on actors to make them a profit. Rehearsals for the plays were fairly short, only lasting for about a week. The performances themselves would only show for three to four days.
In one sense, both comedies and tragedies are dramas because both genres are acted out on stage or on film. Today, drama has come to refer to a genre of play or film, which is serious, somber or sad in nature. Like a tragedy, calamitous circumstances befall the hero of the story. The plot unfolds in the hero’s reaction to these circumstances. Hope is maintained throughout and unlike a tragedy, the hero ekes out some form of triumph in the end, overcoming the circumstances that threatened to destroy the hero at the outset of the
In this paper, I will be focusing briefly on my knowledge and understanding of the concept of Applied theatre and one of its theatre form, which is Theatre in Education. The term Applied Theatre is a broad range of dramatic activity carried out by a crowd of diverse bodies and groups.
A definition of drama is; an episode of life, or fiction that involves emotion or conflict.