DREAM THE DRAMA
“DRAMA IS MY UTOPIA. A GREAT FEELING TO EXPRESS MY EMOTIONS, AN IMPULSE TO SOAR HIGH, AN ABILITY TO SHARE FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS THROUGH LANGUAGE. IT HAS RESULTED INTO THE CIRCULATION OF HUMAN FEELINGS.”
What is Drama?
“Lend me your ears. We are such stuff as dreams are made of. To thine own self be true. What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.”
This is drama. The dramatists with their sheer determination and vivid ideas and concepts move from city to city and country to country. Even if they don’t move physically, their ideas, concepts, words and intelligence spread all around.
Drama, the word speaks everything. It makes you showcase your emotions and project forth your thoughts and thereby articulating your feelings and is responsible to get mingled with people across different parts of the world. It can be in the form of conflict and action crisis. An atmosphere is designed in such a way where actors act vividly and flawlessly before the audience. The raw becomes the finished, the fictitious becomes the factual, the undefined becomes the defined, the tragic, the comedy, the farce, the fantasy and the melodrama are amplified. Drama was first introduced in Europe and from there, the Romans brought it to England.
If this sparks your interest, then this is a hot career to be pursued. From time memorial, the drama holds a distinguishing and unique position in the English literature. Its amplitude in terms of contribution by the great dramatists can never be disregarded. The drama, when presented in its true form, becomes appropriate, attractive and authentic. There is nothing horrendous or ostentatious that may refute the audience. It had been dominant in the past and still projects the shadow of its importance and incredible different conception in the present.
Let us categorize the types of drama for giving you the in-depth understanding of this field as a career option:
1. Tragedy: Generally, it means the ruin and downfall of the leading character. However it has got different connotations to the Greeks and to the Elizabethans. And modern tragedy has changed tremendously and believes that the tragedy involves the downfall and destruction of not the strong and the powerful but the fragile and the weak.
2. Comedy: In the context of drama, it means a light play with a happy ending. The characters in the play are definitely confronted with problematic situations and obstacles hover above their heads. However, they come out of the vicious circle of problems lightly and their actions make the audience burst into peal of laughter. The actors are, generally, beset by a set of problems and their swift and smooth attitudes in carrying out those problems are really worth appreciating and worth considering.
3. Farce: When the comedy is full of hilarious complications and the human values and emotions are refuted, then though the comedy is light but still described as farce.
4. Fantasy: When the author projects an invigorating, lively and his own thoughts embedded with his own imagination which are either placid or farce but the main motive is to placate the audience. Fantasy can steal the show and is rich as gold and pure as snow.
5. Melodrama: A play, which emphasizes the theatrical effects with strong emotions. Like farce, it also doesn’t take into account the human values and emotions. However, it includes the element of thrill and this keeps intriguing the audience.
Thus, the wide range of dramas is unique in their own ways. If you want to expand yourself in this field, then start sharpening your interest and knowledge, curiosity and creativity. Don’t pent-up yourself to a particular treatise only because that won’t serve the purpose. The treasure-trove of the contribution made by various literary people definitely can’t be forlorn and once you start developing your interest into theatre that would be rollicking.
After completing a course pertaining to theatre, your personality would be groomed to the level where you would possess creative thinking, do creative evaluation, doing the research work, planning, organizing and presenting your thoughts and the great artworks of the genius personalities. You would start working as a team member and whenever the deadline is looming, till then you would have developed the attitude to work to the deadline.
After acquiring a degree in Drama, the amplitude of jobs is forever mounting. Out of the blue, you can steal the show with your performance, style and mode. The themes, symbols, motifs and beliefs are incorporated into your drama and you can be the star of your own life displaying what you want, learning what you want to and can set the benchmark for many struggling to shine in this field. You can be a confirmed dramatist once you know the ingredients of your recipe. A plum job that offers you both money as well as to have your head in the clouds.
Put your body and soul into the study of great literary works, gain a meaningful insight from them and then the world is your oyster. The great plays like Othello, Romeo and Juliet, A tale of two cities, Macbeth, Alchemist, Doctor Faustus, the Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The staple of News and so on, again and again read and remembered for their great contributions to the English Theatre and all in all, successful in spite of several criticism raised from time to time.
Your whole-hearted devotion to learn theatre as a career option would surely make you land into an arena of vast jobs like an actor or actress, a stage manager, arts administrator, drama teacher, drama therapist, television production assistant and a radio presenter.
You become a great dramatist only when it’s not the actor who cries but the audience whom you make cry. The drama can be either opera, which is a sung form of drama, or the pantomime where the expressions are depicted only by gestures and here you start intriguing your viewers. The dialogues when filled with vibrancy, emotions, outcry, hilarity, empathy, misery, mercy, tragedy, comedy, then you possess the skills to repair the impair, make the laughing person cry, turning the crying person into hilarious form, and when this becomes possible, then, you as a dramatist have achieved the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. Your strenuous act accompanied with clarity, power and consistency not only has the tremendous power to move the audience but you become capable to conquer their feelings, provoke their desire and become dominant in your own sphere of profession.
Run your imagination freely. Be pure like snow and quick as lightning. Your intelligence should not be scarce rather it should have diverse reach. Start building your interest as a bright day with a bright sun and you can work wise like Solomon.
The famous words coined by William Shakespeare are hurry, countless, sportive, impartial, gnarled, foppish, fretful, laughable, monumental, castigate and lonely. From Shakespeare to Charles Dickens, from Christopher Marlowe to Ben Jonson and John Webster all have contributed a lot to the English Literature with their language encrusted with rich gold and use of vivid images, symbols, beliefs, and suspense. The great sentences coined by Shakespeare are still used by the young generation and thereby refine our language to the greatest extent.
Let me wrap up and put into simple terms that drama or the theatre is a way where you can capture your audience without letting them know that they have been captured. In the interactive sphere, this profession is booming mainly because of two reasons. Firstly, it helps us to articulate our ideas and thoughts to a vast populace and secondly, it helps us to reach the geographical boundaries thereby connecting different people across the world in one vacuum where people are focused only towards the art, its believability, respectability and the pompous and panache. And what next?
“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.”
Being in a human form, your face and gestures can create intimate connections with the audience. Its no more a hard nut to crack rather you respect your audience, take risks, practice the great literature, indulge in comedy, tragedy, irony, humor and farcical situations and then see, the world becomes your oyster. Go the extra mile and don’t make your youth a rotten or a crabbed rather make it fruitful and productive. The job opportunities are copious. All you need to do is start respecting your art, your play, your part, your fellow players and the audience. Use your fantasy and innovation and make the unreal real and get involved into the character rather than merely exploiting it. Should have good voice, opinion, facial expression, body language and project yourself in a manner quite pompous and bombastic.
“Real beauty lies in the eyes of your audience.
Start the odyssey of spreading real beauty.”
08-Jan-2010
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