Today is the day that totally changed my perception about drama. I admitted that I was ignorant about drama before I enter Dr Edwin, my lecturer for Teaching the Language of Drama (EDU3217), lecture on that day. It must be due to dislike on acting and stage fright. I seriously thought that drama is just a play which contains a storyline that is performed on stage. During my lesson in EDU3217, my mind totally went blank when Dr Edwin briefed us a lot about the history of drama. I never know that drama in the olden days is so different from the drama that we know today. Isn’t it amazing to know that the concept from drama keep on changing from time to time, from story-telling to gladiator, gladiator to morality play, morality play to mysterious play, and then, it finally evolve to the drama that we know today. As Dr. Edwin always told us, drama represents the development of culture. The changes in the concept of drama represent the growth of human development in this world. The human in the olden day will not have the same values that the human in the present day hold and even the human in future may have different values that we hold today. As science improve day by day, the concept of drama certainly would change again and it would be interesting to wonder what type of drama it would evolve in the future. Maybe it’ll extinct and be replace by modern technology like television and radio or maybe it evolve to another higher stage where it can meet the need of the people in the future. Well, nobody knows about the future. Therefore, it is our job to teach and guide next generation to appreciate drama so that it won’t extinct and evolve to a better drama in the future.
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