It is dramas and theatre productions created to give voice to injustice. It aids in giving visual and oral expression in assimilating negative feelings. It is aimed at evoking awareness of the issues in public or for all who are observing the performance.
A dramatic convention is a set of rules which both the audience and actors are familiar with and which act as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action or of a character. A convention is a technique employed regularly in the drama so that the audience come to attach specific meaning to it. When a technique is used repeatedly in a drama the audience recognise its significance. They buy into it as an established way of telling the story.
Drama is created and shaped by the elements of drama which, for the Drama ATAR course, are listed as: role, character and relationships, situation, voice, movement, space and time, language and texts, symbol and metaphor, mood and atmosphere, audience and dramatic tension.
Physical Theatre is a type of performance where physical movement is the primary method of storytelling; as opposed to, say, text in a play or music and lyrics in an opera.
Also, it may incorporate other techniques such as mime, gesture and modern dance to create performance pieces. It is a highly visual form of theatre which crosses between puppetry, mime, theatrical clowning, contemporary dance, and theatrical acrobatics. They focus on looking at the dramatic potential that can be unlocked from movement. Their work is often described as existing at a crossroads where dance, sound and drama meet.
DV8 are well known for using Physical theatre to explore complex aspects of human relationships and social or cultural issues. Theatre techniques are procedures that facilitate a successful presentation of a play. They also include any practices that advance and enhance the understanding the audience brings to the action and the acting by the cast on stage. Theatre is always physical. The body expresses a story in itself. Some use words and gestures to describe, and bring a story to life, while others use their bodies to do it: essentially, they are doing the same thing.
Another physical theatre tradition started with the French master Etienne Decroux father of corporeal mime. Theatre helps you express yourself, helps you tell the stories your of your life and the lives of others. It helps you create meaning through personal narratives. Theatre influences the way we think and feel about our own lives, forcing us to examine ourselves, our values, our behavior.
Verbatim Theatre gives voice to people who would not normally have a platform. The process creates dialogue in a way that most playwrights have to manufacture otherwise. Theatre has an incredible reach, and for me, verbatim theatre has the added punch being able to engage with people on a human level. Verbatim plays can break down complex social issues and promote change, by presenting a digestible, authentic piece of theatre, with clear messages to take-home.
Recorded delivery is one way of creating Verbatim Theatre. Instead of transcribing the interviews into a script, the interviews are edited into audio tracks. Performers then listen to the tracks through headphones live onstage and simply speak the words as they hear them. A form of documentary theatre, it allows theatre makers to explore events and themes through the words of people at the heart of them, and was hugely influential in the revival of political theatre at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Drama techniques such as improvisation, role-play, mime, character analysis and interpretation fit well into the dynamics of the didactic process. Give them space instead of taking their words.
The rule of the clean Verbatim includes avoid over the repetition of the words, use of the correct form of adjectives and adverbs at the right position. Explanation: Clean verbatim is defined as the process of transcription where an audio file is cleaned which may contain repeated words or filler words.
Verbatim is defined as an exact repetition without changing the words. An example of verbatim is when you quote someone exactly without changing anything. Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally. I have copied his speech and here it is, verbatim. The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film, but it enhanced film production almost instantly.
For this reason, television evolved very rapidly and was able to develop its own technology and techniques separate from film. We as the audience get to witness the trajectory of persons other than ourselves. As artists, we put ourselves into emotional and intellectual situations that may never arise in our personal lives.
Theatre promotes us to give power to truth, to take risks and to advocate for new and diverse voices. Theatre reminds us that we are not alone. Not only are we sharing space and an experience with the artists who are performing, we are sharing the experience with fellow audience members.
Theatre is immediate, evolving and always different. Although the script may be the same every night, the performance is unique, each and every time it happens. No two performances are ever the same. In this way, everyone involved has a distinct and unique experience that can never be replicated. Live theatre helps to promote social discourse, dialogue and potential social change.
Theatre is a cultural phenomenon that demands that society examines itself in the mirror. We can study societal problems and attempt to find solutions. This was the power that theatre exercised over the Greek society; it made one a proper part of the Grecian society. Even now, though Ancient Greek societies are no more and the theatre itself has evolved to encompass more spheres, Athenian tragedies still remain behind as masterpieces.
With the late Middle Ages came a revolution in European drama, which till then was a pale imitation of the Greek form of drama and much inferior. However, as art was allowed to flourish in the Late Middle Ages, stories became more complex and were often of religious colours, however, there were also a number of secular plays as well that were staged during this time. The religious plays were staged to showcase to the audience the importance of morality and to show them their own sins as well as the importance of the Church, which was all-powerful at that point in time.
The secular ones were for entertainment and to sow the seeds of thought in the audience, to open up a broader world to them, where religion did not take centre stage. The role of theatre is expansive and as with any other visual media of entertainment, it is an excellent and much more direct form of questioning what is felt wrong with the society.
It shapes the perspective of many people just as with any other medium and is very good means of entertainment as well. However, theatre is not a form of rebellion, but a form of scrutiny of the laws and rules of society itself and as of old today, the audience is the one that is influenced to question and form their own principles at the end of all of it.
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