What have I learn?

During the first day of tutorial, it was quite interesting. Miss Kastoori asked us to role-play a simple and short play called “Bingo” by Edward Bond. Each groups need to present their own interpretation by role-playing it. My group and I were all involve in the play. We acted as students as students discussing homework and bombarding one particular student. While looking at other people’s performances, I would never think that one simple play can be performed in many ways. After that first class, I learned that drama can help a person expand his or her imagination and creativity.

Besides that, before taking this course, I thought that drama is just dialogues but during lectures I learned that drama is more than that. In a play, there are a lot of genres like comedy, tragicomedy, farce, and so on. In lectures, I also learn there are two types of theatre: Aristotelian and Brechtian. Beforehand, I never heard of these terms and taking this course has broadened my mind on the world of theatre and drama. Moreover, listening to the lectures isn’t so bad since there were terms or conventions in theatre that were foreign to me like soliloquy and the aside. I have never expected that drama has so much of these aspects and that really change my perspective on drama.