3. Formal plays
Depict life, character, or a
combination of all three.
They offer excellent opportunities to
portray vividly important ideas about life.
4. . Pageants
are usually community dramas that are
based on local history, presented local
actors.
Example:
A historical pageant that traces the growth of the
school
5. Tableau
a French word which means picture. is a
picture-like scene composed of people
against a background.
-A tableau is often used to celebrate Independence
Day, Christmas, and United Nation Day.
6. Puppets
Dale claims that puppets, unlike the
regular stage play, can present ideas with
extreme simplicity – without elaborate
scenery or costume- yet effectively.
7. Types of Puppets
1. Shadow puppets – flat black silhouette made
from lightweight cardboard and shown behind a
screen.
8. 2.Rod puppets – flat cut out figures tacked to a stick
with one or more movable parts, and operated from
below the stage level by rods or slender sticks.
9. 3.Hand puppets – the puppet’s head is operated by
the forefinger of the puppeteer, the little finger and
thumb being used to animate the puppet hands.
11. 5.Marionettes - flexible, jointed puppets operated by
strings or wires attached to a cross bar and maneuvered from
directly above the stage.
12. Role-playing
is an unrehearsed, unprepared and
spontaneous dramatization of a “ let’s
pretend’’ situation where assigned
participants are absorbed by their own roles
in the situation described by the teachers.
