Teaching of aDrama

with a difference

JOSHUA GNANA RAJ. PPH. D. (ENGLISH LITERATURE)

“I made mistakes in drama.

I thought drama was when actors cried.

But drama is when the audience cries.”Frank Capra

Italian American film director.

DRAMA The word comes from the Greek meaning,

which is again derived from the verb which means “To Do”, or “To Act”.

Drama is also often combined with Dance and Music.

... Samuel Becket’s Waiting For Godot (Indian

Context).

Charlotte Keatley’s My Mother Said I Never Should (Western Context).

MY MOTHER SAID I SHOULD NEVER A collaboration with teaching and the

dramatic theatre. Workshops and special classes. The history of 1980s and the costumes of the

age. Students talked with the wardrobe

supervisor....

Review of the 3 Acts....

Caryl Churchill Top Girls.

SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMAS Analysis of the then society, European history. Group Discussions.

... Write down parallel stories or shorten them

innovatively as Mary and Charles Lamb did. Audio Visual assignments. Applying the past plot lines to the present

(Politics). Real psychological analysis.

... Hidden talents are brought to the forefront. End result - new jobs are created.

HAMLET – THE WORLDWIDE TOUR for an actor, should not exist too much on the page,

but has to be lives and breathed, more ever he says that, “I enjoy reading him, but seeing him is more enjoyable.” (Ganesh 4).

... The writer of the article Deepa Ganesh concludes by

saying, that he has echoed what several scholars believe -- theatre productions have had a greater creative dialogue with Shakespeare than academics and critics.

... A final thought on this topic is that Shakespeare, or

other dramatists had truly written for the stage than for the part of reading it.

...Finally the statement of Frank Capra will true when the

audience feel the pulse of the actors.

Works Cited

Ganesh, Deepa. A Hamlet, and three more. The Hindu 6 Nov. 2015: 4. Print.

.Keatley, Charlotte. My Mother Said I Never Should. Watford: Watford Palace Theatre, 1994. Print.

.Wikipedia contributors. "Drama." Wikipedia, The

Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 26 Nov. 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2015.

.Thank You

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