What is the difference between sketches and comedy, duet, etc.?

There are both similarities and differences between sketches and comedy, drama, opera, and duet.

Some people think that their similarities lie in the fact that they are short in form, have uncomplicated plots, and are "dramatic" or "comedic" in nature. Differences are: comedy generally also has a sketch short, humorous and funny features, as well as some other **** the same point, but the comedy is "talking, learning and singing", focusing on the "say", generally do not use props, do not disguise; and sketches not only with props, to disguise, and focus on the The skits not only use props and make-up, but also emphasize on "acting" and achieving effects through performance. In terms of content, drama, theater, rich in connotation, time and space longer, more didactic components, ideological prominence, some of them give people a heavy, sad feeling, and even tearful. The sketches do not have to have more connotation and ideology, as long as the specific things "side" of the performance can be vivid.

If the drama is a picture or mirror of social life, the sketch is a caricature, is a "ha-ha mirror". It is characterized by the use of "laughter" and exaggerated language to reflect things to reveal a certain social reality. If the drama is the plot and the role of the lines directly infected people, so that people are educated positively, the skit is neither positive education, nor negative education, it is a "heuristic" image of thinking to activate the human senses, so that people from the laughter of the senses.