MOD 7 | THEATRE

• Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
• Drama refers to the literary genre that provides written text of a play in the form of a script.
• Theater is the actual realization of the script in the form of actors performing on a stage.
• ELEMENTS OF THEATRICAL PLAY

  1. Playwright – refers to the person who writes the play; the playwright conceptualizes the story, characters, their dialogue, and other important aspects of the narrative.
  2. Theme – refers to the foundation of the plot or reason why the playwright wrote the play; it is where the narrative or story is based.
  3. Plot – refers to the arrangement or order of events in a play; it provides a logical structure to the story, connecting different events in the narrative.
• ELEMENTS OF THEATRICAL PLAY

  4. Performers – refer to those that bring the plot to life; they deliver the dialogues and execute movements and actions that will animate the story for the viewers.

  5. Spectacle – refers to the visual and auditory aspects of a play; this involves the elements that are seen and heard which include the costumes, props, sound, music, lights, and set.

  6. Theater Space – refers to the area where performers and audience come together; a place where theatrical performance takes place
• ELEMENTS OF THEATRICAL PLAY

  7. Director – refers to the manager of the entire production; the person who puts all the elements together so that the play is not only beautiful but also logical and coherent to the audience.
• TYPES OF THEATRICAL STAGES

  1. Proscenium Stage – a theatrical stage that has an arch that resembles a picture frame. This arch is meant to separate the stage from the audience and is intended for the theatrical performance to be viewed at one perspective.
  2. Thrust Stage – a theatrical stage that protrudes forward, making the theatrical performance viewable at three perspectives; it is surrounded by the audience on three sides.
• TYPES OF THEATRICAL STAGES

  3. Arena Stage – it is also called theater-in-the-round; a theatrical stage that has no concealed sides, making the theatrical performance perceivable all around.

  4. Flexible Stage – a theatrical stage that has little-to-no fixed structure; it can assume the form of proscenium, thrust, arena, or any place where a theatrical performance will be held.
• CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE THEATER

  1. Dulang Pahiyang – in this tradition, theater is considered as a part of life, not as a separate activity
  2. Dulambayan – in this tradition, theater is considered as an instrument to advance sociopolitical causes.
  3. Teatrong Pansimbahan – in this tradition, theater is considered as an agent in spreading the teachings and practices of the church.
• CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE THEATER

  4. Theater as art – in this tradition, theater is viewed as a profession which means that it undergoes a serious preparation; performers engage in a rigorous training.
• Performing Arts - refers to forms of art in which artists use their voices, bodies, or inanimate objects to convey artistic expression.
• Dance - a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of movement.
• Two Movements of Dance

  1. Stationary movement
  2. Movement from one space to another
• FEATURES OF DANCE

  1. Music - accompaniment
  2. Movement - action of dancers using their bodies to create organized pattern.
  3. Themes - content
  4. Techniques - skill in executing
  5. Design - arrangement of movements in time
  6. Properties and Costume - visual effect & helps audience understand
• KINDS OF DANCE

  1. Ethnologic - indigenous to a certain race or country, religious dances, hymns (pagdiwata in palawan, dugso in bukidnon)
  2. Social Dance - for pleasure, performed in pairs or groups, has definite steps (a. ballroom, b. folk dance- distinct to culture)
• KINDS OF DANCE

  3. Spectacular/Theatrical - (a. ballet, b. modern dance - natural and free expression)
• BIG NAMES IN PH CONTEMPORARY ART

  1. Alice Garcia Reyes = Mother of Philippine Contemporary Dance, Founder of Ballet Philippines
  2. Lisa Manuja-Elizalde = Proma ballerina, 1st foreign soloist, vice chairman of unesco
  3. Douglas Nierras = jazz, "metanoia", founder and coreographer of powerdance
• CONTEMPORARY DANCE TECHNIQUES/STYLES

  1. Contemporary Ballet = modern dance and classical ballet
  2. Dance Improvisation = spontaneous
  3. Interpretative Dance = translate human emotions, situations, fantasies, into movement
  4. Lyrical Dance = ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance
• TYPES OF THEATRE IN THE PHILIPPINES

  1. Epic Poetry = highest point of Filipino folk literature
  2. Duplo = poetic debate through song and dance (courtship- uses proverbs and riddles)
  3. Moro-moro = street drama that depicts the conflict between christians and moors
  4. Senakulo = passion play; life and death of Jesus
  5. Traditional Folk Dance
  6. Sarswela = three acts, uses alternately spoken and sung words
• THEMES IN THEATRICAL DRAMA

  1. Tragedy - sad endings
  2. Melodrama - dialogues rather than action (focuses on plot)
  3. Comedy - humor
  4. Farce - satire (exaggerated comedy)
  5. Fantasy - fiction
  6. Musical - theatrical performance, story through words, music, movements
• FAMOUS PERSONALITIES IN PHILIPPINE THEATER

  1. Leonor Orosa-Goquingco - Filipino National Artist in Creative Dance, Mother of Philippine Theatre Dance
  2. Zenaida Amador - Mother of the country's oldest theater group
  3. Antonio Mabesa -one of the founding fathers of Philippine university theater