Volume : 5, Issue : 1, January - 2016

The Artistic Quality of Dramatic Text and the Creative Performance

B. Vidhya

Abstract :

<p>Drama is a unique genre of literature as it is intended for performance. It is usually thought of as a cultural activity. A playwright creates a text with many inherent parts like plot, character, idea and language. The aspects of play script are transformed into performance to attain its completeness. The actor, audience and actions are the important incarnations of theatrical performance. Drama had its growth from time to time and achieved diversity with its variations. In this modern world, cinema, a varied form of drama stays as the most influential art form. Theatre and cinema are two different art mediums that incorporate some similar aspects such as acting and theatrics. Drama entertains all sections of society with its immediacy and cinema with its effective audio visual nature. This paper discuss about the creative process of drama and cinema and its efficacy of visual impact upon the audience.</p>