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Drama is a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning "action", drawn from the Greek verb δραν, "to do".
Dramas can be performed in a variety of media: live performance, film, or television. "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 dialog 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.
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bakupages (Baku Pages) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:19:59 -0000
Baku in Dates: 12-22-1937, birthday: Avsharov Yurij - movie and theater actor, drama teacher: http://bit.ly/7FKSFF
Politics inevitably involves theater and drama requires us to suspend disbelief. Governing is gritty, important and slow paced -- Jim Jaffe
CenteredPols (Centered Politics) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:40:44 -0000
Politics inevitably involves theater and drama requires us to suspend disbelief. Governing is gritty, important and slow paced -- Jim Jaffe
okay,enough with politics,have strict policy to behave and not post like that because I get animated,wow,me?miss theater drama?nah??yeahhhh!
daforgottengirl (Stephanie G) Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:36:18 -0000
okay,enough with politics,have strict policy to behave and not post like that because I get animated,wow,me?miss theater drama?nah??yeahhhh!
@Musikal_Mandy and WHAT was she venting about? She's a theater major in real life and NO one is killin her in the drama industry lol
BrittLynn617 (Brittney Gray) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:45:25 -0000
@Musikal_Mandy and WHAT was she venting about? She's a theater major in real life and NO one is killin her in the drama industry lol
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