TV drama
[ C ]
a play written for the theatre, for a film, for television, or for radio:
The interview was later turned into a West End drama.
This week we will begin broadcasting a new drama by Patricia Wells.
a historical drama历史剧
B1[ U ]
plays and acting generally:
She studied English and drama at college.她在大学里学的是英语和戏剧。
drama criticHe's the drama critic for the Times.他是《泰晤士报》的戏剧评论员。
His new series is a raw drama about family life.
Next up on Channel 4 is the first episode of a compelling new medical drama set in Copenhagen.
British drama enjoyed a rebirth in the 1950s and 1960s with playwrights like John Osborne, Harold Pinter, and Alan Ayckbourn.
The local drama group is staging a production of the musical "Grease".当地剧团正在演出音乐剧《油脂》。
The show was a wonderful amalgam of dance, music and drama.这场表演出神入化地将舞蹈、音乐和戏剧融为一体。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Types of film, play, book etc.
action thriller
adaptation
Afrofuturism
allegorical
anime
bodice-ripper
boy-meets-girl
director's cut
noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
period piece
potboiler
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy
weepy

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Broadcasting: programmes & other broadcasts
Cinema ratings & types of film
Literature
Theatre - general words

dramanoun (EXCITEMENT)

B1[ C ]
an event or situation, especially an unexpected one, in which there is worry or excitement and usually a lot of action: （尤指突然的）戏剧性场面，戏剧性事件
We had a little drama last night when the oil in the pan caught fire.昨晚我们有一个小插曲——锅里的油着火了。
[ U ]
the excitement and energy that is created by a lot of action and arguments: 戏剧效果
As a lawyer, he enjoyed the drama of the courtroom.作为律师，他真的非常喜欢法庭上出现的那种戏剧效果。
Sally always makes a drama out of the smallest of events.
Everybody stopped to watch as the drama of the hostage crisis unfolded on live television.
There was a moment of great drama in Parliament today as two protestors ran into the debating chamber.
The two teams produced 90 minutes of enjoyable football in a seven-goal drama.
Her latest collection of photographs prove that no-one is better at capturing moments of high drama and deep emotion.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
alacrity
animation
ardour
avidity
boosterism
commotion
flirtation
frenzy
friskiness
frisson
frolic
get a buzz out of something/doing something
hubbub
page-turner
pep
perkiness
physicality
piquancy
zeal
zealousness

drama | American Dictionary

drama
noun
us/ˈdrɑ·mə, ˈdræm·ə/

dramanoun (THEATER)

[ C/U ]
a play, esp. a serious one, written to be performed by actors, the writing of plays, or the art of showing plays:
[ C ]She’s been in several television dramas.
[ U ]Arthur Miller, a master of drama, wrote “Death of a Salesman.”

dramanoun (EXCITEMENT)

[ U ]
excitement and strong interest produced by an unexpected or surprising event or situation:
Watching on television was not the same as experiencing the drama of the event in person.

Examples of drama

drama
This section of the book (and it is not the only one) should be required reading for all undergraduate students of the drama.
And so the spoken drama struggles, receiving little international or local community funding, nor extra government money to compensate.
Now, the drama of the change is such that consumers who download music have been characterised as enemies of the music industry.
The actor is a creator and not dependent on the guidance of a director, who always remains external to the enacted drama.
This is music that is unassuming and often undemonstrative, but that turns simple, elemental materials into drama that is absorbing and hard to forget.
The domain most clearly dominated by this koiné is the so-called "social" film, which arose out of another domain, the popular or "social" drama.
The play follows the chronology of events, mostly avoiding the lengthy exposition of conventional drama.
Yet, as in his song-cycles, much of the drama and the emotion is in the accompaniment.
This embodied subtext is in turn read by the audience, based on its members' life experiences and familiarity with theatre and/or filmed drama.
Music then becomes, as it were, the moral atmosphere that fills the space in which the characters of the drama represent the action.
The way historians have used drama and masque provides useful insights.
He also points out that the tradition of writing commentary for drama began much earlier than for vernacular fiction.
The illustration provided a commentary on the visual dimension of the drama's performance, capturing some of its most troublesome moments.
Separated from the context of the drama, his songs became known not as opera songs but as folksongs.
The viewers commented on the uniqueness of the amplified cellophane and tubes' sonorities, as well as the visual drama of the staged performance.
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audio drama
Pendant is considered part of the growing online community specializing in the revival of audio drama and the subgenre of audio theater.
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