What is the importance of drama?

Answer 1

Many people think that it is not necessary to study drama, either because they feel that acting is something that anyone can "just do", or because they feel that acting ability is a question of natural talent. While talent is MOST helpful, it is possible to a certain extent to LEARN how to act well, and to cultivate talent with study. There are several different schools and methods of acting, different methods work differently for different people. Here are more opinions and answers from other FAQ Farmers: * People study Drama because it is interesting, thought provoking and important to our culture and because of their passion for Drama...its that simple! * People are drawn to the study of drama because we are all natural storytellers and like to hear a tale told aloud. This desire to hear a story enacted is as old as people gathering around fires to be with each other.

* People also are drawn to drama because everything that we learn from language to what things are is by trial and error and being shown things. We then re-enact what is shown to us. This is in a sense what acting and drama are, so drama is hard wired into all of us from infancy.

Answer 2

These are facts retrieved from random websites

The perceived advantages of educational drama were: retention; imagination; confidence; freedom; application and activity; independent thinking; role/performance; learning; enjoyment; and social relations.

drama can aid in understanding personal and human

experiences, allowing students to enter into the reality of imaginery situations and

characters. This will enable them to explore emotions, attitudes, opinions and

relationships and accommodate these abstract concepts more readily by representing

them in a dramatic and therefore more concrete form.

Since drama makes constant demands on a person's imagination, it develops a

learner's ability to think more effectively. According to Katz (2000) a learner involved in

a drama activity will be called upon to practice several thinking skills such as: inventing,

generating, speculating, assimilating, clarifying, inducing, deducing, analyzing,

accommodating, selecting, refining, sequencing and judging. It is thus apparent from

the list of skills identified that drama-in-education has a significant contribution to make

to the development of higher order thinking skills.

　

" The arts can provide effective learning opportunities...yielding increased academic performance, reduced absenteeism, and better skill building. An even more compelling advantage is the striking success of arts-based educational programs among disadvantaged populations... The arts contribute to lower recidivism rates; increased self-esteem; acquisition of job skills; and development of much needed creative thinking; problem solving and communication skills."

　

　

Answer 3

Drama enables us to explore situations "from the outside". It allows us to go places that are inaccessible in real life. It allows us, for a time, to be part of community experiencing a range of emotions from laughter to fear, from grief to joy. It rekindles and nourishes our imagination.

Answer 4

Drama is only important when it is considered as a part of the arts. Drama helps people use their imagination. Drama also allows people to be someone else for a while.