DRAMA- history

• Drama


  A story intended to be ACTED ON STAGE before an audience
• Drama


  • Literary
  • Theatrical
• Aristotle's 6 Essential Elements of Drama

  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Characters
  • Dialogue
  • Music/Rhythm
  • Spectacle
• Spectacle


  The visual elements of a play like costume, set, visual effects or simply everything that the audience see on stage
• Three added elements of modern drama

  • Convention
  • Genre
  • Audience
• Three Categories of Drama Elements

  • Literary
  • Technical
  • Performance
• Literary Elements


  • Elements of the story
  • Language (diction or choice of words as per the dialogue of the characters)
  • Style (the shaping of the story, costume, theme, that creates the vibes of the story)
  • Dialogue (the transcript or the lines the characters deliver)
• Types of Dialogue


  • Common
  • Monologue
  • Soliloquy
  • Aside
• Technical Elements


  • Set/Scenery
  • Costumes
  • Props
  • Lights
  • Sound
  • Makeup
• Performance Elements


  • Actors
  • Acting
  • Forms of acting
• History of Philippine Drama


  • Before the Spanish Period
  • Spanish Period
  • Three Kinds of Plays
  • Some Famous Zarzuelas
  • The Modern Philippine Drama

  
• Lea Salonga


  Earned a Tony Award for her starring turn in Miss Saigon, which opened at the Broadway Theatre April 11, 1991
• Salonga's portrayal of Kim, the Vietnamese prostitute who falls in love with an American soldier (Willy Falk) and conceives his child while Saigon crumbles around them, is one of the most draining and demanding roles in recent theatre memory