Dramarama

What is Dramatic Action?

• Spontaneous, improvised or planned

• concrete physical expression of dramatic languages

• the action to create dramatic meaning

• driving force of drama

What do the Dramatic Languages consist of?

• Dramatic Forms and Styles

• Conventions of Forms and Styles

• Elements of Drama

• Skills of Drama

What is Dramatic Purpose?

• the reason a dramatic work is created or performed

• to celebrate, to educate, to entertain

• the intent of the creator/s or interpreter/s of the dramatic action and meaning

• the actors understanding of the play

What is Dramatic Meaning?

• The directors understanding of the text

• the meaning/s or message/s communicated by manipulating the dramatic languages to create dramatic action

• The audiences perspective of the preview

• The actors definition of their intent

Character is:

• the performer takes on the persona, physicality, vocal qualities and given circumstances of the character; the character’s relationships with other characters are defined by their particular history, motivations, desires and ways of seeing the world

• voice, symbol, role, relationship

• situation, role and relationship

• Contrast, situation, role and relation

Contrast is:

• black and white

• characterised by variation and the breaking of patterns in dramatic action

• the same pattern repeating itself over again

• Motif

Focus is:

• the actor's focus during a performance

• the direction of the actor’s or audience’s attention to a specific point, person or object

• the director's focus

• concentration of attention on what an actor is doing, feeling and sensing

Language is:

• Words that are chosen by the director in a scene to support the intent

• Words that the actor says that shows ideas and feelings

• Body language

• refers to the way that ideas and feelings are expressed dramatically; it encompasses the selection of words, delivery of language through voice and the use of body language to express meaning

Mood is:

• how the audience is feeling

• the atmosphere created through the dramatic action

• how the actor feels when they are on stage to drive the action

• how the director wants the audience to feel

Movement is:

• The Actor's movements on stage

• Physical Theatre

• the use of the voice to communicate meaning

• the use of the body to communicate meaning