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Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.