A dramatic text tells a story through actors and their performance. It can be written as a script and includes stage directions to guide actors. A dramatic text generally includes characters, a setting, and a plot with an orientation, rising action, climax, falling action, and conclusion. It may include elements like narratives, poems, monologues, or verses. Common dramatic text types are dramas, tragedies, and comedies. A dramatic text uses grammar and language suitable for theatrical performance, including proper nouns, past tense, and technical theatre terms. An example dramatic text passage provided shows characters interacting in a school corridor through dialogue and stage directions.
2. What is a Dramatic Text??
Dramatic text is a story that use the actors to make it look
real. Sometimes, the actors use some property and the
script to prepare before performance.
Drama can be spoken or written. The purpose of
drama is to express the dramatist’s ideas by the
actor so the audience can be amused
3. The features is..
A dramatic text may be in the form of a script
Include am introduction, followed by segments of action
In the dramatic text there can be narratives, poems,
monologues, and verse
There are three major types of dramatic text: the drama,
tragedy and comedy
Gramatical features of a dramatic text, there are :
Proper Nouns,to identify specific character
Past Tense, to recount events
Timeless present Tense, when indicating production
detail
Technical terms associated with the theatre
4. The Dramatic text part..
Orientation
Rising Action
Climax
Falling action
Conclusion
Orientation : Introducing
the characters, setting and
other Information
Rising Action : The
events lead to climax
Climax : The
high point of
drama
Falling Action: the
event to explain or
resolve what has
taken place during the
climax
Conclusion : a
final scene that
provides a moral
based on the
action
5. Model of a Dramatic TextStructure
ACT 1
Scene 1 : Rayhani. A
corridor’s school
Descripti
on of the
action
Enter RAYHANI at the corridor,
and then met ADE and GALUH
Gramatica
l Feature
Ade : Hey! Don’t walk in here!
Go!
Galuh : Yea! You’re not allow to
walk in here!
Rayhani : oh, I’m Sorry
Directio
n for
the
actor
Dialogu
e
To be
spoken
And the other dialog more…
