The term dramatization is one that is used to designate some type of representation or acting performance in which a performance of certain and specific situations is carried out. The word comes from another noun: drama, which is precisely the way of representing literary works through dialogue and orally. The term drama comes from the Greek (civilization that created the theater as an artistic element), language in which it means "action". Therefore, the drama or the dramatization of something is to perform an action, to act in a certain way or form.
That is, in the dramatization a drama is represented that consists of a story that usually deals with some sad theme that involves different characters that are played by actors, usually on a theater stage, but the genre has also become very popular in the cinema and on TV.
In general, when speaking of dramatization, reference is made to acting representation in media such as theater, cinema or television. In these spaces, the actors create characters from a script that tells them what to say, how to move, how to act and how to show the audience certain sensations, ideas, thoughts and general situations. Meanwhile, there is a professional, the director, who will be in charge of directing all the staging and the performance.
The importance of the actor's dramatic ability
In these types of representations, the dramatic ability of the actors who represent dramas is extremely important because otherwise it will be very difficult to move or convey the dramatic content of the story if they are not seasoned professionals in the field. A good actor must know how to perform in each of the genres that he has to represent in his career. Now, around the drama there is great respect and then in the name of that many times an additional pressure is attributed to the actor who has to interpret a drama, that is, it is more demanding when it comes to this genre. For example, when actors closely associated with comedy stand out in a drama, they usually surprise everyone.
Greek origins
The first forms of dramatization took place in Ancient Greece, a society in which the theater had great importance not only as an artistic form but also as a space for debate and representation of the different phenomena that took place in everyday life (such as nowadays television news). In these times, dramatization was a way of educating the public on various topics such as philosophical, moral, cultural, among others.
The theatrical dramatization had two basic forms, quite different from each other: on the one hand, tragedy and on the other, comedy. Although there are variations and intermediate points between them, tragedy and comedy represent the two basic forms of theater (hence the typical symbol of the two opposite masks, one happy and one sad).
While tragedy generally represents crisis situations that affect the depths of the human being, comedy seeks to represent everyday life situations showing its characters as common beings, possessors of virtues and defects.
The dramatization, however, should not be understood as a purely theatrical or artistic action. In many moments, any ordinary person can carry out a dramatization of lived situations with the aim of telling their circumstantial audience how they lived that situation, what was said, what happened, etc.
For example, the concept is also used to designate the exaggeration that someone makes of something, attributing it to very dramatic features.
Use in therapy
We must also emphasize that dramatization is a procedure that has been imposed at the behest of psychology as a therapeutic alternative so that patients can overcome certain pathologies. In this process, one or more people discuss a common issue or a problem that unites them and opens up about it. It is used a lot because it is a practice that helps a lot to express the interiority of people and in disinhibition.
