Drama
Objective:
• At the end of the lesson, the
students will be able to:
• a. identify types of play
Classroom Standards:
– Please wear your mask all the time.
– Please clean your hands with soap or hand
sanitizer.
– Practice social distancing
– Please keep classroom neat and clean
– Please don’t share personal items with friends.
– Respect others opinion.
– Raise your hand if you want to answer.
– Listen when somebody is talking.
• Note; (Nearsighted students should sit in front.)
Review
• Parts of Plot in a play:
• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution
This is What I Feel
• Touch the emoji on the board
and say the word/s using the
emotions presented in the emoji
• “PLEASE”
• “I Love You”
• “ I hate you”
• “Forgive me”
• “ Your such a fool”
• “ Let’s take a break”
Pantomime: Guess the
movie
• Inside the box are selected
movie title PICK ONE and act it
out!
What Is Drama?
A drama is a story enacted onstage for a live
audience. (Not to be confused with the genre.)
What Is Drama?
• Origins of Drama
– The word drama comes
from the Greek verb dran,
which means “to do.”
• The earliest known
plays:
– were written around
the fifth century B.C.
– produced for festivals
to honor Dionysus,
the god of wine and
fertility
Types of
Plays
What are the
characteristics of
the various Types
of Plays?
Types of Plays
• Tragedy
• Comedy
These are just a few of the types • Drama
of plays. A published play often • Melodrama
includes one of these words on
the cover as a clue to the reader • Farce
about the contents of the book • Satire
(a comedy in one act, or a
drama in three acts, for example.)
Some plays are serious, others are
funny. Some serious plays contain
funny scenes or lines, while some
funny plays have serious messages
or themes. And there are different
kinds of funny. It may be helpful to
think of plays as being part of a
continuum - a line that stretches ,
unbroken, from the most serious to
the most comedic.
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Each play can be classified by looking at it’s characteristics, the
same way that foods can be classified by looking at ingredients.
In the following slides we will examine the major types of plays.
Tragedy
Tragedy is one of the oldest types
of Drama. It has been with us
since the days of the Great Greek
Playwrights Sophocles,
Aeschylus, and Euripedes. In
general usage, tragedy means
something like very sad, but in the
study of drama it has a much more
specific meaning.
Examples of Tragedy
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Titanic • Seven Sundays
• Dance with a • That Thing
Stranger Called Tadhana
• Apollo 13 • Through Night
• Boys Don’t Cry and Day
• Four sisters
• Zodiac
and a wedding
Drama
– Drama is a general category for
plays about serious subjects.
Character development and
theme are usually more
important than plot. Ibsen’s A
Doll’s House is a drama, as is
Miss Julie, by Strinberg.
Examples of Drama
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• 12 years a Slave • Unbreakable
• A Star is Born • A Second Chance
• Animal Kingdom • One More Chance
• Almost Famous • Close To You
• Beautiful Boy • Forevermore
• Before Sunrise • A Very Special Love
COMEDY
• Comedy is a more general term, applied
to any play that has a happy ending -
even if the play isn’t funny. Plays
ranging from Shakespeare’s As You
Like It, to Oscar Wilde’s Lady
Windemere’s Fan to Anton Chekkov’s
Uncle Vanya to Neil Simon’s The Odd
Couple all are comedies. Even murder
mysteries such as Agatha Christie’s The
Mousetrap are, technically, comedies.
Examples of Comedy
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Animal House • The Adentures of
Priscilla, Queen of
• Bridesmaids the Desert
• Superbad • Good to be True
• Boy Bastos
• Little Miss • 5 in 1
Sunshine • Be Careful with my
Heart
MeloDrama
Melodrama is the category for plays
about serious subjects where plot is
more important than characters and
theme. Characters tend to be rather
flat, and they don't change or
develop during the course of the
play. Murder mysteries and suspense
thrillers fit into this category.
Examples of Melodrama
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Imitation of Life • The Mistress
• When a Woman • The Love Affair
Ascends the Stairs • Bride for Rent
• All that Heaven • No Other Woman
Allows • Bakit Manipis ang
• Man Bait Ulap
• Pickup • A Beautiful affair
Sentimental Drama
• Sentimental Drama is the “soap
opera” category. Serious subjects
are treated in a serious manner;
plot and character are more
important than theme. There is
usually a heavy emphasis on the
emotions of the characters.
Examples of Sentimental
Drama
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• BellFlower • On Vodka, Beers
• Big Fish and Regrets
• 500 Days of • Never Not Love You
Summer • Elise
• Tears of • Barcelona: A Love
Endearment Untold
• Hintayan ng Langit
Sentimental Comedy
• Sentimental Comedy is the “sit
com,” or situational comedy,
category. Subjects are usually
lighter, and are treated with
humor. Major emphasis is on
plot and character. Neil
Simon’s Barefoot in the Park
fits in this category.
Examples of Sentimental
Comedy
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Love Last Shift • Paano ang Puso Ko
• The Lying Lover • Just the 3 of Us
• The Tender • The Achy Breaky
Husband Hearts
• The Conscious • Bcoz of U
Lover • Room for Rent
• Sakal, Sakali,
Saklolo
• Desperadas 2
Farce
• Farce is often called “low comedy.”
The emphasis is almost entirely on
plot, with bawdy jokesQ and
physical humor. Elements of farce
include such things as chases,
disguises, talking at cross purposes,
and slapstick (pratfalls, slipping on
banana peels, etc.). Feydeau’s A
Flea in Her Ear is a farce.
Examples of Farce
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Duck Soup • Booba
• To Be or Not To Be • Here Comes the
• A Night at the Bride
Opera • Petrang Kabayo
• The Hungover • Praybeyt Benjamin
• Some Like it Hot • The Woman in The
Septic Tank
• Who’s That Girl?
• Kimmy Dora:
Kambal sa Kiyeme
Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the absurd contains
elements of many other types. It is
usually defined by its underlying
theme of the meaningless nature (or
absurdity) of life. Often, the very
structure of the play reinforces this
idea, as in Ionesco’s The Bald
Soprano
Examples of Theatre of
the Absurd
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Songs From the • Kool Ka lang
Second Floor • Camp Sawi
• Closely Watched • Ang Tanging Ina
Trains • Love is Blind
• Life of Brian
• Temptation Island
• The Exterminating
• Hating Kapatid
Angel
• Bride for Rent
Comedy of Manners is a
“high comedy” category. The
emphasis is on the cleverness
and witty dialog of the
characters, who are usually
members of the upper class.
The great comedies of the
English Restoration (1660-1725)
and Eighteenth Century
(Farquar’s The Beaux`
Stratagem and Sheridan’s The
Rivals for example) and Wilde’s
The Importance of Being
Earnest fit in this style
Comedy of manners
Examples of Comedy of
Manners
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Breakfast at • You to Me Are
Tiffany’s Everything
• Bridget Jone’s • Pinoy Blonde
Diary • Can’t Help Falling
• Emma In Love
• Lost in Translation
• Clueless
Satire
Satire is also considered to be high
comedy. In satire, the playwright pokes fun
at social customs and current fashions -
sometimes including specific individuals of
the times - perhaps in some effort to change
the current thought and behavior.
Aristophanes satirized many elements of
Greek culture in his plays. Moliere satires,
such as the Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe, and
The Would-be Gentleman were sometimes
so biting that his career was threatened.
Examples of Satire
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Gulliver’s Travel • This Guy In Love
• Slaughterhouse With U Mare
• American Psycho • Grandpa is Dead
• Brave New World • Beauty in A Bottle
Social
Drama
• Social Drama is the serious counterpart of
satire. Current social problems are examined
in a serious manner. Modern serious plays
dealing with homelessness for example, or
drug addiction, or child abuse, or teen violence
would fit within this category, if their intent
seems to be to change prevailing attitudes and
policies.
Examples of Social
Drama
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Life is Beautiful • Heneral Luna
• American Beauty • Miracle (Himala)
• In The Name of The • A Change of Heart
Father • Feng Shui
• Dogville • Metro Manila
• The Color Purple
Musical
Comedy
Musical Comedy is possibly America’s
only original contribution to dramatic
literature. It features spoken dialog
combined with songs and dances - and
since Oklahoma! by Rogers and
Hammerstein, the songs are integrated into
the action, a real change from the older
operetta form.
Examples of Musical
Comedy
Foreign Movies Filipino Movies
• Singin’ in the Rain • Kakabakaba Ka ba?
• Top Hat • Do Re Mi
• My Fair Lady • Kailangan ko’y
• Coco Ikaw
• A Night at the • Diva
Opera
Role Play
• Direction: Pick a topic inside the
box and choose any of the types
of play to perform.
Rubric for scoring:
• Performance--- 10
• Creativity and style---- 10
• Relevance to the theme ----- 10
• Total: 30
•
Answer Me!
• In your earthly existence, what
is your favorite type of movie?
Cite the movie title.
• What is its type?
My Life My Own Drama
• If you are going to make your
life into a play? What would be
its title? What type of play
would you like it to be? Why?
Abstraction:
• Why is it important to determine
the type of play before watching
it? What is its implications to
the viewers?
Evaluation
¼ Sheet of paper
1. A play where dramatist not only
tell their stories through acting or
dialogue but through dance as well
as music
a. musical
b. melodrama
c. farce
d. tragedy
Evaluation
2. An exaggerated drama, which is
sensational and appeals directly to
the senses of the audience.
a. farce
b. comedy
c. melodrama
d. musical
Evaluation
3. A drama that uses darker themes,
such as disaster, pain and death.
Protagonist often have a tragic flaw-
a characteristic that leads them to
their downfall.
a. comedy
b. farce
c. tragedy
d. melodrama
Evaluation
4. A play that is lighter than ordinary
works and provide a happy
conclusion
• a. comedy
• b. tragedy
• c. melodrama
• d. farce
Evaluation
• 5. A type of comedy based on a
farfetched humorous situation,
often with ridiculous or
stereotyped characters
• a. melodrama
• b. farce
• c. tragedy
• d. comedy
Evaluation
Answer Key:
• Answer:
• 1. A
• 2. C
• 3. C
• 4. A
• 5. B
