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A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events. Dramatists who have written political dramas include Sergei Eisenstein, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Paul Sartre and Federico García Lorca. Television series that can be classified as political drama include Yes Minister, its sequel Yes, Prime Minister, The West Wing and Commander in Chief. Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, Latvian: Sergejs EizenÅ¡teins) (January 23, 1898 – February 11, 1948) was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkin and Oktober. ... Bertolt Brecht Brecht redirects here. ... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ... Commander in Chief was a television drama that focused on the presidential administration and family of Mackenzie Allen (portrayed by Geena Davis), the first female President of the United States, who ascended to the role after the previous chief executive, Teddy Bridges (played by Will Lyman), died in office from...


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Fear is Driving this Political Drama (766 words)
And it cannot escape notice that, although we are a much larger and far more diverse country than we were a century and a half ago, the political battle lines today geographically are drawn essentially where they were then.
Ironically also, both sides of the divide in this political drama are driven largely by fear.
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OFF THE TELLY: Drama/Partly Political Broadcasts (2427 words)
Broadcast in 1991, Alan Bleasdale's epic GBH does not conform to the notion of political drama that we are exploring here (in that the story's focus is not with parliamentary politics), and in truth cannot really be described as an out-and-out political drama.
The political element of GBH is neatly encapsulated in an early exchange in which the two main characters - Michael Murray (Robert Lindsay), the leader of the local Labour council clashes with Jim Nelson (Michael Palin), a Labour supporter and teacher who refuses to join a strike that Murray has organised.
Although political figures would form the basis for some of the series' episodes, it was via the central question of institutional corruption that Wilsher (and the series' other writers) were able to explore the kinds of issues of public accountability that dogged government throughout the 1990s.
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