Writing about Drama

Credits to St. Bernie's News for the picture.

I have never written an extravaganza play, however i do have a clue. All these courses paying off as a child. Okay, so basically, there's two types of drama. Prose fiction and Drama. The difference is , is that drama is a piece of literature. Drama is a theatrical producting that connects with the crowd. Thinking about it logically, a drama production is like a restuarant. the audience being the customers, the chef being the writer and the waitors and waitress's being the actors. The Chef's Job is to produce and create, the waitors and waitress' job is to deliver with gratitude and the customers job is to recieve, which is basically, sitting back and enjoying the show. Throughout drama there is alot of things that have to be covered. Body Language, Facial Expression, Tone of voice, use of language (for example, walking to something, or prancing, which one is more interesting?). One of the many things that some people tend to forget when writing a drama is that they have to avoid both of the clichés, these are;  "Show, Don't tell.." and "Make sure dialogue advances plot or character.".

Show dont tell basically means to have the actor standing still on the page waiting around while the narrator is sitting there reading it all out. The point of a theatrical play is to show the audience what is happening. not read it out to them.

In order of making sure that the diologue advances plot or character, you would have to do something that would make a twist. For example, Carly coming home from boarding school and finding her boyfriend and bestfriend have been cheating. The part that would be making the diologue advance in plot would be the bestfriend and the boyfriend being together, and the character would be Carly.

Here's a video to describe some of the drama techniques and different body language methods.


http://www.ehow.com/video_12221328_drama-techniques-body-language.html