A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.
A drama is a film that is dominated by seriousness of tone and purpose. One or more tragic turns drive the story and the emphasis is most often on the characters and how they develop in reposnse to the tragedy. Many dramas are also more traditional in the sense of being about characters who have tragic flaws and the story looks at how those flaws lead to the characters decline or demise.
a literary work which presents a story by means of dialogue and action.
A literary work that tells a story by means of dialogue and action to be performed by actors. A play.
1. n. a story written to be acted out, as on the stage of a theatre; a play; 2. a series of interesting or exciting events.
A work that is created to be performed by actors on stage, screen or radio, can also mean a situation or sequence of events that is emotionally charged, tragic or turbulent.
1. (This definition provides the focus from which drama in elementary school should be derived). The study of the art form through an improvisational process-centered form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact and reflect upon human experience. The primary purpose of drama in the classroom is to facilitate learning by the participants, rather than to create a performance for an audience. The essence of theatre definition is known variously as creative drama, improvisational drama, developmental drama and classroom or educational drama. 2. (This definition is a broader scope of the art form as a discipline). A literary composition intended to portray life or character or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance.
The art of the theatre; plays, playmaking, and the whole body of literature of and for the stage.
a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"
an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
the literary genre of works intended for the theater
the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
a kind of theatrical play, and some event-filled happening in our life
a literary composition involving conflict, action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience
a lively commentary by Haggis, writer-producer Bobby Moresco and actor Don Cheadle
a serious play that does not between the extremes of tragedy and comedy
a serious play that does not rise to meet the strict definition of tragedy
a work of literature or a composition which delineates life and human activities by means of presenting various actions of a dialogue between a group of characters
a work that tells a story by means of dialog or action and represents or gives directions for representing all or a substantial portion of a story as actually occurring rather than merely being narrated or described
A form of literature that is intended to be performed before an audience. Drama for stage is also called theatre. In a drama, the story is presented through the dialogue and the actions of the characters. See Script
The art of composing, writing, acting, or producing plays; a literary composition intended to portray life character or tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions exhibited through action and dialogue, designed for theatrical performance.
A broad literary genre that includes different kinds of plays, including mystery play and morality play from the Middle Ages and comedy, history, and tragedy from the early modern period.
a story written to be performed by actors
A story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters. Dramas are usually divided into two types, those being tragedies (serious play in which the central characters meet an unhappy or disastrous end) and comedies (humorous plays that end happily). The stories are told through dialogue and stage directions, which tell the actors how they should move and react to certain happenings.
story-telling, mime, puppetry, improvisation, spontaneous dramatic play, role-play, movement, process drama, enactment, devised drama, scripted drama, monologue, ensemble work, physical theatre, dance drama, theatrical forms such as poor theatre, or commedia dell'arte
A form of literature to be acted out before an audience
the playscript itself; the art of writing and staging plays; a literary art form different from poetry or other fiction.
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a literary composition, usually in dialogue form, that centers on the actions of charcters.
dramatic climax dramatic irony editorial external conflict
A representation of life improvised in dramatic activities or portrayed on a stage by actors before an audience; a piece of writing intended for stage presentation; conflict, tension, emotional intensity.
a literary work designed for presentation by actors on a stage. Examples: Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice; Miller, Death of a Salesman.
Derived from the Greek word dram, meaning "to do" or "to perform," the term drama may refer to a single play, a group of plays ("Jacobean drama"), or to all plays ("world drama"). Drama is designed for performance in a theater; actors take on the roles of characters, perform indicated actions, and speak the dialogue written in the script. Play is a general term for a work of dramatic literature, and a playwright is a writer who makes plays.
Drama (Classical Greek ) is a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning "action", drawn from the (Classical Greek A workshop is a situation where a group is allowed to explore and think about an issue, a book, a thought, a play, anything. Within drama terms it is an active situation with a lot of learning and experiencing.