Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from "to do","to act" (Classical Greek: δράω, draō). The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet (1601) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the King (c. 429 BCE) by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (1956).
The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia and Melpomene. Thalia was the Muse of comedy (the laughing face), while Melpomene was the Muse of tragedy (the weeping face). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BCE)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.
Some rules are meant to be broken
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After 4 less than mediocre seasons on TV, a supernatural reality show called "The Strange and Unusual" is being canceled. With only one episode left to shoot, Joel, the show's producer is determined to give the network a series finale they won't forget.
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When Vince Chase's film 'Lucky' proves to be anything but at the box office, Turtle comes up with an idea to sell a sex tape online starring Vince and virgin starlet Mandy Morehead. Ari has an important meeting with Dana Gordon about casting Vinnie in Judd Apatow's new movie 'Awkward Pauses'. Drama tries to get his own sex tape with Punky Brewster on the Internet. Billy then decides to shoot Aquaman a XXX parody starring Vince.
Keywords: batman-spoof, facial, hardcore, oral-sex, porn-parody, sex, sex-comedy, sex-parody, shaved-vagina, threesome
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A record producer in search of his big break finds his chance to record in the home studio of a hot shot record executive unexpectedly complicated by the appearance of a friend who was recently paroled from prison and in search of a place to celebrate his release. Pure Water may be from the hood, but he's got all the ambition of a true superstar and he's determined to make his dreams of success come true. When Pure does a big favor for a powerful record executive, the grateful executive does his best to repay the act of kindness by allowing Pure into his home studio for a free weekend recording session. Everything is going great for Pure until his old friend Drama comes looking for a place to party after being released from prison. As the weekend gets underway, it doesn't take long for Pure to realize that recording his demo, maintaining the house, and keeping his old pal Drama in check will take more effort that one man alone can muster.
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One man's journey after a life of addiction starts a new after returning from London. Unable to find a job in New York, he is forced back in the business of drug running. The consequence of such a life pushes him over the edge.
Keywords: drug-use, independent-film
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When you start from the bottom there are problems at every turn. Issues to sort out, decisions to be made. But it doesn't mean you can't make it. It's time to put yourself in Dionne's shoes. Her fate is in your hands. Get thinking. Get Voting. It's Dubplate Drama.
Keywords: urban-setting
Are you a snake or a ladder?
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A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Keywords: 1940s, air-raid-shelter, airplane, altar-boy, ambulance, arrest, aryan, baby, bare-breasts, based-on-novel
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Purity, a simple country girl, comes to the city and is hired as an artist's model. A young poet becomes obsessed with her, and is distraught when he learns she has been posing nude. But his distress is diminished when he finds that she intends to use her income from modeling to publish his poetry.
Keywords: art-model, artist, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, model, nude-modeling, poetry