The document discusses different forms of performing arts such as drama, music, and dance which are creative activities performed in front of an audience. It specifically focuses on theatre arts and drama, explaining that drama is a story enacted on stage involving characters, a plot with conflict and resolution. The document also covers different types of drama such as comedy which has a happy ending, tragedy where the main character suffers, and satire which pokes fun at Greek legends.

1. Performing Arts
What is performing Arts
Forms of creative activity that are
performed in front of an audience,
such as drama, music, and dance.

2. What is Theatre Arts
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine
art that uses live performers to present
the experience of a real or imagined
event before a live audience in a
specific place.

3. Drama

4. What Is Drama?
A drama is a story enacted on
stage for a live audience.

5. Origins of Drama
•The word drama comes
from the Greek verb dran,
which means “to do.”
•The earliest known plays
were written around the
fifth century B.C.
•Produced for festivals to
honor Dionysus, the god of
wine and fertility

6. Dramatic Structure
Like the plot of a story, the plot of a
play involves characters who face a
problem or conflict.
Complications
tension builds
Climax
point of highest tension;
action determines how the
conflict will be resolved
Exposition
characters
and conflict
are introduced
Resolution
conflict is resolved;
play ends

7. Dramatic Structure
Conflict
Is a struggle or clash between
opposing characters or forces.
A conflict may develop . .
 between characters who want
different things or the same
thing
 between a character and his
or her circumstances
 within a character who is torn
by competing desires

8. COMEDY: light humorous dramas with
a happy ending
TRAGEDY: the main character suffers a
disastrous end
SATYR (satire): made fun of Greek
legends
Types of Drama

9. Types of Drama
A tragedy is a play that ends unhappily.
• Most classic Greek tragedies
deal with serious, universal
themes such as
right and wrong
justice and injustice
life and death
• Tragedies pit human limitations against the larger
forces of destiny.

10. The protagonist of most the classical
tragedies is a tragic hero.
• is noble and in many ways
admirable
• has a tragic flaw, a personal
failing that leads to a tragic end
pride
jealousy

11. Comedy
A comedy is a play that ends happily. The
plot usually centers on a romantic conflict.

12. Comedy
• Comic complications always occur
before the conflict is resolved.
• In most cases, the play ends with a
wedding.

13. The main characters in a comedy
could be anyone:
servants
Common peoples

14. The Characters
The characters’ speech may take
any of the following forms.
Dialogue: conversations of characters onstage
Monologue: long speech given by one character to others
Soliloquy: speech by a character alone onstage to
himself or herself or to the audience
Asides: remarks made to the audience or to one
character; the other characters onstage do not hear an
aside

15. The Audience
Finally, a play needs an audience to
 experience the performance
 understand the story
 respond to the characters

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