(extra) WEEK 4 What is Drama? Please try to describe theater as if you were explaining this concept to a person who never heard of it.

 If I define drama in a word, it is a story in someone's imagination. The actions, words, places, and situations of the characters in the drama are fictions created by someone. Some dramas deal with what might be in reality, but they are not. You may think that it is reality because you are familiar with yourself, but the drama itself cannot become reality. This is because they are all directed. Every detail is directing. Drama deals with content that can never happen in reality. Someone dramatizes things that can never happen in reality through their imagination. People are interested because they can't happen in reality. In other words, drama is all fiction.

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