Philippine Drama
Philippine
Drama
What is Drama?
• Drama comes from Greek words meaning “to do” or “to act.“
• Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.
• According to Oxford Dictionary, drama is a composition in prose or in verse; adapted to be acted and is represented with accompanying gesture, costume, and scenery, as in real life.
• It is essentially social and involves contact, communication and the negotiation of meaning. • Drama needs an individual or a group of people who use themselves – their bodies and their minds – through action and offers through speech to tell a story.
• It is a social encounter in a special place and in a special time. The actors and the spectators move between real time and imaginary time, from existential reality to dramatic reality.
A drama is a story enacted onstage for a live audience. Did you know that:
• A world-wide show (A Dramatic Entertainment) , Miss Saigon , which was produced by Cameron Mackintosh of England whose company received a Queen’s award for Export Achievement was staged in the Cultural Center of the Philippines in March
2001 .
• As to casting, the producers unanimously felt that they needed
Asian voices that could sing Western music. And this worldwide search took them to 10 countries including the Philippines where they found the majority of their original London cast.
• It is here that Miss Lea Salonga of the Philippines became the first star of the show.
Development of Drama
• Ancient Drama :
– Among the Egyptians of about 2000 B.C.E., drama existed in religious ceremonies for the worship of Osiris. There are some evidences of drama in the Book of Job and in the song of
Solomon, where occasionally there appear to be parts for two speakers. – But the drama, as known today, in distinct forms of tragedy and comedy is originated in Greece, in the festivals of Dionysus in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.E., where poetry, a Dithyrambic ode with song and dance, was presented by a leader and a
Drama
What is Drama?
• Drama comes from Greek words meaning “to do” or “to act.“
• Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.
• According to Oxford Dictionary, drama is a composition in prose or in verse; adapted to be acted and is represented with accompanying gesture, costume, and scenery, as in real life.
• It is essentially social and involves contact, communication and the negotiation of meaning. • Drama needs an individual or a group of people who use themselves – their bodies and their minds – through action and offers through speech to tell a story.
• It is a social encounter in a special place and in a special time. The actors and the spectators move between real time and imaginary time, from existential reality to dramatic reality.
A drama is a story enacted onstage for a live audience. Did you know that:
• A world-wide show (A Dramatic Entertainment) , Miss Saigon , which was produced by Cameron Mackintosh of England whose company received a Queen’s award for Export Achievement was staged in the Cultural Center of the Philippines in March
2001 .
• As to casting, the producers unanimously felt that they needed
Asian voices that could sing Western music. And this worldwide search took them to 10 countries including the Philippines where they found the majority of their original London cast.
• It is here that Miss Lea Salonga of the Philippines became the first star of the show.
Development of Drama
• Ancient Drama :
– Among the Egyptians of about 2000 B.C.E., drama existed in religious ceremonies for the worship of Osiris. There are some evidences of drama in the Book of Job and in the song of
Solomon, where occasionally there appear to be parts for two speakers. – But the drama, as known today, in distinct forms of tragedy and comedy is originated in Greece, in the festivals of Dionysus in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C.E., where poetry, a Dithyrambic ode with song and dance, was presented by a leader and a