Dramatized experiences can include formal plays, pageants, tableaus, pantomimes, and various types of puppets. Puppets allow ideas to be presented with simplicity without elaborate scenery or costumes. There are several types of puppets including shadow puppets, which are flat silhouettes shown behind a screen; hand puppets, operated with fingers; and marionettes, which are string puppets maneuvered from above the stage.

2. Dramatized experiences can
range from the:
•Formal plays
•Pageants
•Tableau
•Pantomime
•Puppets
•Role Playing

3. •Shadow puppets
•Rod puppets
•Hand puppets
•Glove-and-Finger puppets
•Marionettes
Types of Puppet

4. Something dramatic is
something that stirring or
affecting or moving. A
dramatic entrance is
something that catches
and holds our attention
and has an impact.

5. Formal Play
Depict life, character, or culture
or a combination of all three.
They offer excellent
opportunities to portray vividly
important ideas in life.

6. Pageants
Are usually community dramas
that are based on local history,
presented by local actors. An
example is historical pageants
that traces the growth of a
school.

7. Pantomime
Is the “art of conveying a story
through bodily movements only”
(Webster’s New Collegiate
Dictionary).

8. Tableau
(a French word which means
picture) is a picture-like scene
composed of people against a
background.

9. Puppets
Unlike the regular stage play, can
present ideas with extreme
simplicity- without elaborate
scenery or costume- yet
effectively.

10. Types of Puppet
•Shadow Puppet- flat black silhouette
made from the lightweight cardboard
and shown behind screen.
•Rod Puppet- Flat cut out figures
tacked to a stick, with one or more
movable parts, and operated from
below the stage by wire rods
or slender.

11. •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.
•Glove-and-Finger puppet- make use
of old gloves to which small costumed
figure are attach.

12. •Marionettes- Flexible, joined
puppets operated by strings or
wires attached to a cross bar
and maneuvered form directly
above the stage.