Today, we’re going to talk about how acting and drama are different. The term “performing arts” refers to any type of art in which a performer uses their voice, body, or both to show how they feel. Acting is a kind of performance art because an actor often uses their face, body, and voice to act out a role.
Performance
The performing arts include any type of art in which a person uses their voice, body, or both to express their artistic ideas. The performing arts include many different kinds of art, such as dance, music, opera, theatre, and musical theatre.
Performance arts include things like mime, spoken word, puppetry, circus arts, recitation, and public speaking. An actor’s face, body, and voice are often used to show what a character is like. This makes acting a kind of performance art. Acting is a type of theatre, which is a performance art where stories are acted out in front of an audience.
This is done in many different ways, including through voice, movement, music, dance, sound, and show. There are many different types of theatre, such as plays, musicals, opera, ballet, illusion, mime, classical Indian dance, improvised theatre, stand-up comedy, non-traditional or arthouse theatre, etc. In each of these types of theatre, you need an actor.
The practical
The practical parts of theatre are the building blocks of acting. Drama will have a much bigger focus on both theory and practical acting modules than acting, which is mostly about what happens on stage. There are things that happen offstage that are important to drama. Drama and acting are two very different things.
A play’s written text is called “drama,” while a play’s performance on stage is called “theatre.” Another difference between these two words is how you understand the play. As was already said, the way the play is interpreted on stage may be different from how it is understood by reading the drama. When people watch a drama, they can talk directly to the person who made it. But in a play, the director, the actors, and the designers act as the middlemen. Drama is an abstract idea, but theatre is something you can see and touch.
What Is Drama?
When people talk about a “play,” they mean drama or the written text of a play. The British Theatre Guide says that drama is “a form of theatre based on a representation of an event written in prose or pantomime that uses acting to show and explain an event or situational tension.” The word “drama” comes from the Greek verb “dran,” which means to do something or act.
People who like plays might see the situation in a different way than people who like books or other written works. In a drama, the author and the reader talk to each other directly.
What is acting in a play?
The Greek word “theasthai” is where the English word “theatre” comes from (to behold). The word “theatre” refers to how the play was put on stage. This requires a stage, actors, sets, costumes, lighting, sound effects, and, most importantly, an audience.
In reality, a performance space, actors, and an audience are the three most important parts of theatre. Theater is a group effort by the author, the director, the actors, the technicians, and many other people. In this case, there is no direct interaction between the author and the audience.
The play might be seen in a different way at the theatre. For example, a play version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth may have a different meaning than what we get from reading the play.
