There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

a criterion of muscle `` drama '' that is unforgettable to judges and audiences alike ; ;

This is the real protagonist of the drama ; ;

The drama in the theater and the concert in the hall both have a fixed time, but the time is fixed by the director and the players, the conductor and the instrumentalists, subject, therefore, to much variation, as record collectors well know.

This is drama enough.

Make no mistake, this Gorky Studio drama is a respectable import -- aptly grave, carefully written, performed and directed.

Only rarely is the reader drawn directly into the emotions of the characters or the drama of the scene.

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

" Alarums and excursions " is a stage direction for the moving of soldiers across a stage, used in Elizabethan drama.

Universities will offer three-to four-year programs, where a student is often able to choose to focus on drama, while still learning about other aspects of theatre.

Rasa theory blossoms beginning with the Sanskrit text Nātyashāstra ( nātya meaning " drama " and shāstra meaning " science of "), a work attributed to Bharata Muni where the Gods declare that drama is the ' Fifth Veda ' because it is suitable for the degenerate age as the best form of religious instruction.

Abhinavagupta offers for the first time a technical definition of rasa which is the universal bliss of the Self or Atman colored by the emotional tone of a drama.

The challenge to the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics, thought to be original, is actually continuous with older aesthetic theory ; Aristotle was the first in the Western tradition to classify " beauty " into types as in his theory of drama, and Kant made a distinction between beauty and the sublime.

The 1957 romantic drama film An Affair to Remember involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is averted by an automobile accident.

* In the classic 70s period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, a major character in the second season, which is circa 1909-10, is Thomas Watkins, the devious Bellamy family chauffeur.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

The Baroque is a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music.

The play received glowing reviews in all the British broadsheets, including The Times: " The Tricycle's latest recreation of a major inquiry is its most devastating "; The Daily Telegraph: " I can't praise this enthralling production too highly ... exceptionally gripping courtroom drama "; and The Independent: " A necessary triumph ".

* The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air radio drama production company

The production of Hong Kong's soap drama, comedy series and variety shows have reached mass audiences throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

Robert Hugill for Music and Vision called the production " astonishing … nearly twenty years after its premier ," while City Beats Tom McElfresh called Nixon's score " a character in the drama " and " too intricate, too detailed to qualify as minimalist.

His production company, Grammnet Productions, produces the CW sitcoms Girlfriends and The Game which is now on BET, the NBC drama Medium, and is involved in many other projects.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

His behavior got him kicked out of the cast of the New School's production in Sayville, but he was discovered in a locally produced play there and then made it to Broadway in the bittersweet drama I Remember Mama in 1944.

* The visual quality of a soap opera is usually lower than prime time US television drama series due to the lower budgets and quicker production times.

This and other lucrative overseas markets, along with Australian broadcasting laws that enforce a minimum amount of local drama production for commercial television networks, help ensure that both programs remain in production.

* Sweeney Todd and the String of Pearls: an Audio Melodrama in Three Despicable Acts ( 2007 ), an audio play by Yuri Rasovsky, won three 2008 Audie Awards for best audio drama, best original work and for achievement in production.

Cited as " one of the great set-ups of genre drama ", the opening sequence establishes the Orwellian and postmodern themes of the series ; its high production values have led the opening sequence to be described as more like film than television.

She became a professional actress in 1982 after graduating from drama school and moved to New York City in 1984 where she appeared in the Broadway production of The Real Thing.

A 1942 act of Congress made advertising expenses a tax benefit and that sent even automobile and tire manufacturers — who had no products to sell since they had been converted to war production — scurrying to sponsor symphony orchestras and serious drama on radio.

The acclaimed television drama was honored a decade later when the kinescope of the production was selected for showing at the Museum of Modern Art on February 17 – 20, 1963, as part of Television USA: Thirteen Seasons, described by MoMA Film Library curator Richard Griffith as " a grand retrospective of the best that has been done in American television.

In the United States, contemporary radio drama can be found on ACB radio, produced by the American Council of the Blind ; on the Sirius XM Book Radio channel from Sirius XM Satellite Radio ( previously Sonic Theater on XM ); and occasionally in syndication, as with Jim French's production Imagination Theater.

While there are few academic programs in the United States that offer training in radio drama production, organizations such as the National Audio Theatre Festival teach the craft to new producers.

* Walter K. Kingson and Rome Cowgill: Radio drama acting and production.

An article written by the production drama team stated that the director and production team planned to " embrace the challenge to make the fantastical elements come alive on stage.

Owing to the combination of its bizarre nature ( a fusion of musical performances with serious police drama ) and its high-powered production talent, it became infamous as one of the biggest television failures of the 1990s.

In 1946, the Soviet Union prevented a production of Our Town in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin " on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave.

While popular farces and melodramas like the stage adaptation of Trilby anchored the repertoire ( the production ran for an extraordinary 260 performances ), Tree also encouraged the new drama, staging Maeterlinck's The Intruder ( 1890 ), Ibsen's An Enemy of the People ( 1893 ) and Wilde's A Woman of No Importance ( 1893 ), among others.

He enrolled in the drama program at Montclair State University, where he was cast in the class production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Bacque had just completed a comic drama for the stage entitled Conrad, about a media mogul in prison, which was scheduled for production on October 2, 2009 at the George Ignatieff Theatre in Toronto.