If you are a teacher, you should know a drama.
You can teach your students how to perform a drama. Don’t say that you are not
an actor or a star so you cannot teach your students a drama.
As
a teacher, it is better to do all things, including teaching a drama. It is not
hard to teach a drama to your students.
By teaching
students a drama, as a teacher you can make your students more expressive. They
will know how to express their feeling in front of public. If they do that,
they can raise up their self-confidence.
Is
it important to teach students a drama?
Of course yes, as a foreign language
teacher, you have to be able to teach your students drama in English. You have
to do some steps before giving them some Shakespeares’ plays. Don’t be afraid
of teaching your students a drama. It is not a boring lesson. You should change
into one of the interesting lessons that your students always wait for.
What is a drama?
When you see on stage
some people do something with some kinds
of expressions on their faces and act as if they were in that situation. They have performed a drama. The
word ‘drama’ came from Greek. It means ‘action.’ The derivation of the word ‘to
do’ or ‘to act.’
Such as this picture:
(Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih, by Sanggar Ananda)
There are many kinds of drama that we know
from where the places are:
1. Western drama
Based on the classical Greece. The society at that time liked to express their expression on the stage. The theatrical cultures produced three genres of drama only. There were tragedy, comedy and the satyr. They often made all in some cmpetitions to celebrating the god Dionysus.
1. Western drama
Based on the classical Greece. The society at that time liked to express their expression on the stage. The theatrical cultures produced three genres of drama only. There were tragedy, comedy and the satyr. They often made all in some cmpetitions to celebrating the god Dionysus.
2. Roman drama
Based on the Wikipedia, it came from the
expansion of the Roman Republic (509–27 BCE) into several Greek territories
between 270–240 BCE. Their important dramas were tragedies and comedies.
3. European
Drama
Based on the Wikipedia, in the Middle
Ages, drama took a special part in the society from religious enactments of the
liturgy. All stories about them were presented
from the cathedrals. They werer about moralities and interludes.You can
see on the Elizabethan stages. The uniques of the dramas in this era were
written in verse, especially iambic pentameter. You can see at Shakespeare’s
plays. Their storylines were based on the Greek and Roman Mythologies.
4. Modern
drama
The pioneers of this era were Henrik Ibsen
from Norwegian at the 19th century and Bertoit Brech at the 20th
century from Germany. They were modernist and realist. Ibsen’s had many works
based on the liberal tragedy and Brechts was a historical comedy. The other
playwrights were Antonin Artaud, August
Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Maurice Maeterlinck, Federico García
Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Ernst Toller,
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Eugène
Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Dario Fo, Heiner
Müller, and Caryl Churchill.
5. Asian drama
a. India
The origin of the drama was from the
Sanskrit drama. It was developed from Greek and Roman drama. It was between the
2nd century BCE and the first century CE. There were hundreds of
plays were written between the first century CE and the 10th. It was
called the relative peace period until
Islam came into India, drama was discouraged and forbidden. Then it
developed again while the British came into India. The period of the British
Empire from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th
6.Modern
Indian drama
The famous modern playwright at that period was Rabindranat
Tagore. He got the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913 for his plays. Here is
one of the his plays. The title was Waterfall.
STRANGER :What's that
there put up against the sky? It is frightful!
CITIZEN : Don't you know? You're a stranger, I see,It's the Machine.
STRANGER :Machine! What Machine?
CITIZEN : Don't you know? You're a stranger, I see,It's the Machine.
STRANGER :Machine! What Machine?
CITIZEN: The Royal Engineer, Bibhuti,
has been working at it for the last twenty-five years. It's just been finished.
A festival is now being held in honour of the occasion.
http://www.tagoreweb.in/Render/ShowContent.aspx?ct=Plays&bi=72EE92F5-BE50-40D7-3E6E-0F7410664DA3&ti=72EE92F5-BE51-4087-2E6E-0F74106)
b. Modern Urdu
drama of India and Pakistan
It was influenced by North India
dramatic traditions. Such as Nawab Wajid
Ali Shah of Awadh. Based on Wikipedia, his dramatic experiments led to the
famous Inder Sabha of Amanat and later this tradition took the shape of Parsi
Theatre. Agha Hashr Kashmiri is the culmination of this tradition. Sometimes
this drama was influenced by Modern Indian theatre. It was the origin of the
Bombay Film industry later.
www.indianetzone.com
7. China
Guan Hanqing was one of the great
Chinese dramatists, who was known for
his "zaju" plays. Zaju was a kind of the traditional drama from
Chinese which had a happy ending and it was full of songs, dancing just like an
opera.
www.english.cr.cn
8. Japan
Japanese Nō
drama is a serious dramatic form that combines drama, music, and dance into a
complete aesthetic performance experience. It developed in the 14th and 15th
centuries and has its own musical instruments and performance techniques, which
were often handed down from father to son. The performers were generally male
(for both male and female roles), although female amateurs also perform Nō dramas. Nō drama was supported by the government, and particularly the
military, with many military commanders having their own troupes and sometimes
performing themselves. It is still performed in Japan today.[43]
