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Script writing is a very meticulous art form that involves understanding many technical things like form, character, plot, structure, story, emotional graph, beat, rhythm etc.It involves a great deal of reading and watching.  What is the most selling genre of all time? It is drama. This is because drama has a feeling based structure of storytelling that makes the heart race or fall. It makes one feel elevated or really down too. Script writing classes are a great way of understanding life as you start noticing different people and think about how they deal with life. It is in a way also a documentary study of all the lives that exist around you. You do it by going deeper into how you think people will act and react to different situations. Inspiration from reality is a great way of studying character development for script writing. Read further…

1. What does it take to be a director? 2. How is a theatre director different from a film director? 3. What are the principles of direction and what are the rules of direction? 4. Are there any rules? 5. What about ethical and moral rules? A director clearly has a lot of power to make important decisions. But that also invests the idea of responsible and ethical decision making on the director. At FLUX, we offer theatre direction classes. These are not only process driven but also take into account theoretical and ethical direction. As an actor, the actor entrusts the director with him or herself. Thus it becomes the director’s responsibility to choreograph the piece and the people with love and care. Many directors can easily look at actors as resources. They just forget they are human beings who feel and get affected by their role. At FLUX, we also make sure that we train our budding directors into responsible and caring people first. They must learn how to manage power dynam...

History of Drama: Western drama is traced back to the classical Greek culture around 5th century BC. Athens was the center of this ancient theatrical culture. There three genres of drama used to get enacted, tragedy, comedy and satire. But by the beginning of the 2nd century BC Rome came up to be the center of the theatrical scene. Early middle ages were the time of morality drama when churches staged dramatized versions of biblical events. It went up the same way till 15th century. Further in the 16th and 17th centuries, English Renaissance theatre took up the theatrical center stage and dominated it with the rise of such great legendary dramatists like Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson to name a few. Later from 1660 to 1710 England saw the rise of restoration comedy with the rise of the dramatists like John Dryden, William Wycherley and George Etherege. Modern and postmodern era dominated the scene during 19th and 20th centuries initiated by the 19th ...