STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Folk traditions A fusion of music, dance, drama, stylized speech, and spectacle, folk theatre is a composite art form with deep roots in local identity and native culture. An important indigenous tool of interpersonal communication, this form of theater reflects the social-political realities of its […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE THEATRICAL CONVENTIONS AND PERFORMANCE STYLES Performance Styles The way in which the plot is conveyed in a performance: sometimes to a particular philosophy of performance, sometimes to an historic period. Theatrical Conventions Things done on stage by the actors which contribute to an overall performance […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Historical development of theatrical forms There are four basic theatrical forms defined, implied, or derived by or from Aristotle: Tragedy; Comedy; Melodrama; and Drama. Any number of styles can be used to convey these forms. A good working definition of “Style” is how something is […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Theatre and performance During the last quarter of the 20th century, the term performance gained an ever-greater prominence in relation to theatre studies, first in the United States, then in Europe, and by the end of the century, around the world, owing in significant measure […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE TYPES OF DRAMA Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning “action”, which is derived from the verb δράω, dráō, “to do” or “to act”. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Realism and Naturalism Theatre Conventions The two schools of thought and subsequent movements in the theatre were distinct and separate, though blurred with historical time lines and similarities in style. As a result, the move towards a more authentic form of drama on the stage […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE The Stylised Theatre In the new drama, the external action, the revelation of character, is becoming incidental. We are striving to penetrate behind the mask, beyond the action into the character as perceived by the mind; we want to penetrate to the inner mask. The […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE THEATRE OF ROOTS The search for a new ‘Indian’ idiom in independent India generated many debates and took several trajectories. One of the most primary questions addressed was regarding the future direction that India theatre should take and the constituents of this ‘Indianness’. Many playwrights […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Rakesh H. Solomon classifies modern theatre into three phases : the Orientalist phase that begins in the late 18th century with the birth of Indology; the high nationalist phase at the turn of the 20th century and the postcolonial phase from 1947 to the present […]
STUDY MATERIAL on Generic Elective (ENGLISH) Paper TEXT AND PERFORMANCE Classical India As theatre was declining in Europe, it was arising in Asia. The earliest references to dramatic representations come from India in the 2nd century bce, and sometime between this period and the 2nd century ce the great Indian textbook on theatre, the Natyasastra, […]