Day 6 Prompt: Theater and Drama
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tolkienekphrasisweekMandatory Art Form Prompt
Drama is an inherently collective and collaborative form of fiction shared through performance, often, though certainly not always, within the physical and/or symbolic bounds of a theater governing the relation between the performers and an audience. A vast array of performance-based art seeks to relay meaning to an audience, including stage and radio plays, musicals, mystery tableaux, opera, pantomime, mime, puppet theater, the theatre of the oppressed, theatrical improvisation, some performance art, skit comedy, etc. etc. Dramas often involve other forms of art, such as dance, music, painting, and clothing design, in order to communicate their themes and plots. The lines between theater and ritual are also often blurry, due to the shared emphasis on repetition, representation, and assumption of likenesses. Today’s prompt encourages us to think about ritual, communication, projection, archetypes, artistic embodiment, and audience engagement.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Western drama originates in the Greek theater of antiquity, which subdivided the genre into comedy and tragedy. Today, consider the using conventional structure of the Greek tragedy to structure your writing: Prologos, Parodos, Epeisodion, Stasimon, and finally Exodos.
Optional Art Method Theme
Theater might actually be considered a composite of multiple art forms to present a complete artistic result. Today, artists may find themselves inspired by these contributory arts, such as set-making, costume designing, makeup artistry, musical accompaniment, and so on, to create art which is incomplete without the addition of some other aspect.
Optional Pain Theme
A core component of tragedy is its inevitability: the end of the play won’t change no matter how often it is played out. When you make art for today’s prompt, consider narrative inevitability and narrative trappedness.
Optional Joy Theme
Augusto Boal, discussing the teatro del oprimido, held that his participatory version of theater is perhaps “not revolutionary in itself, but it is surely a rehearsal for the revolution” (“Poetics of the Oppressed”). In a legendarium full of inescapable dooms and augured kings, how can art literally and figuratively change the narrative, providing a ‘dressing room’ for just action?
A number of examples for your inspiration.
Drama is an inherently collective and collaborative form of fiction shared through performance, often, though certainly not always, within the physical and/or symbolic bounds of a theater governing the relation between the performers and an audience. A vast array of performance-based art seeks to relay meaning to an audience, including stage and radio plays, musicals, mystery tableaux, opera, pantomime, mime, puppet theater, the theatre of the oppressed, theatrical improvisation, some performance art, skit comedy, etc. etc. Dramas often involve other forms of art, such as dance, music, painting, and clothing design, in order to communicate their themes and plots. The lines between theater and ritual are also often blurry, due to the shared emphasis on repetition, representation, and assumption of likenesses. Today’s prompt encourages us to think about ritual, communication, projection, archetypes, artistic embodiment, and audience engagement.
Optional Writing Method Theme
Western drama originates in the Greek theater of antiquity, which subdivided the genre into comedy and tragedy. Today, consider the using conventional structure of the Greek tragedy to structure your writing: Prologos, Parodos, Epeisodion, Stasimon, and finally Exodos.
Optional Art Method Theme
Theater might actually be considered a composite of multiple art forms to present a complete artistic result. Today, artists may find themselves inspired by these contributory arts, such as set-making, costume designing, makeup artistry, musical accompaniment, and so on, to create art which is incomplete without the addition of some other aspect.
Optional Pain Theme
A core component of tragedy is its inevitability: the end of the play won’t change no matter how often it is played out. When you make art for today’s prompt, consider narrative inevitability and narrative trappedness.
Optional Joy Theme
Augusto Boal, discussing the teatro del oprimido, held that his participatory version of theater is perhaps “not revolutionary in itself, but it is surely a rehearsal for the revolution” (“Poetics of the Oppressed”). In a legendarium full of inescapable dooms and augured kings, how can art literally and figuratively change the narrative, providing a ‘dressing room’ for just action?
A number of examples for your inspiration.
