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Why is drama so interesting to people. I think perhaps theatre can be the only real avoidance from drama. During the Greek and Roman times, performances and festivals with performances would be provided as a distraction from the state’s distress. Of course the playwrights did not necessarily distract the citizens, but rather drew from events and issues surrounding society. They made fun of it like in Lysistrata and The Clouds and The Frogs. Of course, by teasing certain events or historical figures, the playwright could serve as a ‘distraction’ while circumventing discreet significant observations of society. For example, in The Clouds, Aristophones makes fun of Socrates and the Sophists, and basically the intellectual movement at the time. If mankind did not have drama would it have art? What else could move us to tears, other than the follies of our own souls presented before us in poetic irony; and indeed, to incite laughter on the melancholy of life’s continuous comedy? Story telling is one of the most fundamental tools to communicate experiences.