WordNet
n. the act of performing a drama; "the group joined together in a dramatic production" [syn: dramatic production]
Usage examples of "dramatic performance".
It was not so much a recitation as a dramatic performance, an impersonation of an Anglo-Saxon bard in a mead hall, and it impressed generations of students because it brought home to them that Beowulf was not just a set text to be read for the purposes of an examination but a powerful piece of dramatic poetry.
The Rhivi manner of narrative - the dramatic performance - had well conveyed the events this valley had witnessed.
It and the others were camouflage for the machinery set within, the sum total of human knowledge-- every published word and painting video and photograph, plus every recorded musical and dramatic performance -- existed in a digital form, literally at their fingertips.