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It covers styles such as naturalistic and non-naturalistic performance, physical theatre, and theatre in education, then outlines major drama genres including comedy, slapstick, tragedy, gritty realism, historical drama, docudrama, and soap. The glossary also explains how messages and themes are conveyed, different narrative structures, scene structure elements, and character creation tools like objectives, status, arc, and emotional memory, supporting higher marks in assessments.","•  \nGCSE Drama Glossary  \nUse the words below to help give you ideas for practical work and to give you extra marks in assessments. Obviously there are many more and you can add your own to the list!  \nStyles of Drama  \n• Naturalistic: The performance is as close to real life as possible.  \n• Non-naturalistic: The performance is more theatrical and tells the story using a variety of techniques such as flashbacks; direct address to the audience; multiple role-play.  \n• Physical Theatre: This means the performance is literally more physical. To tell the story the performers focus on their bodies. E.g. Mask work, creating a forest using the bodies of the performers, Mime    \n• Theatre in Education (TIE): A play that is created to teach a particular lesson. Often toured round schools and to young people. Often followed by a workshop or discussion about the topic.  \nGenres of Drama  \n• Comedy: The story shown is funny and ends happily. There are many types of comedy    \n• Slapstick: Physical comedy that centres around accidents, mock fights and humiliation  \n• Tragedy: The story shown is sad and usually involves the death or downfall of its main character/s.  \n• Gritty Realism: About real , usually working class, poor people.  \n• Historical Drama: Set in a particular historical period  \n• Docudrama: Looking like a documentary with reconstructions (like'Crimewatch')  \n• Soap: Follows the format of a television soap; long interrelated storylines; prologue at the beginning; follows the fortunes of the characters who live/work in a particular place.  \nGetting the Message Across  \n••  \n• Target Audience: The sort of people the play is aimed at.  \n• Message: What the play intends the audience to have learned or to think about.  \n• Themes: The general ideas that the play looks at.  \nWays of Telling the story  \n• Episodic: A play is episodic when it shows particular events (episodes) that happen in the course of a long period of time, not necessarily in the order that they happen. E.g. Blood Brothers shows the key events that happen to a pair of twins from the moment they are born to the moment they die.  \n• Linear Narrative: A play has a linear narrative when the story is told in the order that events happen. Each scene normally links from the last one and the story is over a relatively short period of time.  \n• Framing Device: A scene that goes at the beginning and end to help the audience get into the theme of the p   \n• Holding Scene: A scene that literally holds the rest of the play together. It is the most important scene in the play without which the rest would not make sense.  \n• Flashback/ forward: The scene shows an event that happens earlier in the story or later in the story.  \n• Split Scene: Two connected scenes going on at the same time. Uses a freezing devise to shift the focus of attention between them. 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