Drama Form 3 groups and assign them a scenario to portray. • Group 1 with action, no dialogue • Group 2 with dialogue, no action • Group 3 with dialogue, no emotion • • • • • • Describe the performance of each group. What did they perform? What can you say about their performance? Is it a good one or not? Why do you say so? Do you think there is something missing in their performance? Do you think we can still improve their performance? How? Do you think there will be a significant change if they performed it with additional elements? Therefore, what can you assert from this activity? Elements of Drama Objectives At the end of the lesson, you should be able to: • Identify the elements of Drama (Literary Elements) • Answer activities regarding the Literary Elements of drama • Construct a draft script for a one-act play Learning Competencies • identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in drama • understand intertextuality as a technique of drama conceptualize a character/setting/plot for a one-act play • explore different staging modalities vis-à-vis envisioning the script • write short exercises involving character, dialogue, plot, and other elements of drama • write at least one scene for one-act play applying the various elements, techniques, and literary devices Elements of Drama Elements of Drama ❑Literary Element ❑Technical elements ❑Performance Elements Literary Elements of Drama 1.Script ❑The written product of the playwright ❑It contains the dialogues, descriptions and stage directions Stage direction ❑an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting Literary Elements of Drama 2.plot ❑a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story, or the main part of a story exposition Rising action climax Falling action resolution acts ❑ major division of drama scenes ❑refer to the actual action that takes place in a specific and single setting and moment in time Literary Elements of Drama 3.Characters ❑Beings who inhabit the story ❑Sometimes they are actual people but just as often, they can be anything Flat and round Static and dynamic Antagonist and protagonist Confidante an foil Flat and round Static and dynamic Flat and round Static and dynamic Antagonist and protagonist Confidante and foil Literary Elements of Drama 4.settings ❑The time and place or the locale where the story of the play is situated sociological ❑Cultural, economic, and political attributes of a place ❑Their beliefs, norms, and traditions about the society physical ❑place where the action occurs in the novel. It is described with at least some of the five senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste psychological ❑Mood of the place used as setting ❑Sad, cheerful, scary Literary Elements of Drama 4.Dialogue Literary Elements of Drama 4.Dialogue ❑ exchange of spoken words between two or more characters in a book, play, or other written work Literary Elements of Drama 5.monologue Literary Elements of Drama 5.monologue ❑speech given by a single character in a story. In drama, it is the vocalization of a character's thoughts Literary Elements of Drama 5.conflict ❑generally occurs when a character cannot achieve an objective due to an obstacle ❑This obstacle may be internal or external – between characters or between characters and their environment Man vs man Man vs himself Man vs nature Man vs society Man vs supernatural Man vs technology Literary Elements of Drama 6.Theme ❑what the author is trying to convey — in other words, the central idea of the story INTERTEXTUALITY ❑text's relation with other texts ❑Creation of idea influenced by other text or shaping/making a text meaning by another text