Department of Education
Region III - Central Luzon
Schools Division of Pampanga
SAN ISIDRO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL – SAN LUIS
San Isidro, San Luis, Pampanga
DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ARTS 9
February 19, 2019
I. Objectives:
At the end of the session, students should be able to:
Identify the History and Evolution of Theatre
Identify the selected theatrical forms from the different art periods.
II. Subject Matter:
“Western Classical Plays/Opera”
Reference: Music and Art 9 Module
Materials: TV and Laptop
III. Procedure:
a. Preliminaries
Prayer
Greetings
Checking of Attendance
Checking of Assignment
b. The teacher will be discussing some of the theatrical forms from the different art periods.
HISTORY
Theatre began from myth, ritual, and ceremony. Early society perceived connections between actions
performed by groups of people or leaders to a certain society and these actions moved from habit, to
tradition, to ritual, to ceremony due to human desire and need for entertainment.
Theatre means “place of seeing”, but it is more than the buildings where performance take place.
To produce theatre, a playwright writes the scripts, the director rehearses the performers, the designer
and technical crew produce props to create the scenes, and actors and actresses perform on stage.
GREEK THEATRE
European theatre began in Ancient Greece. It began around 700 B.C. with festivals honoring their
many gods.
The city-states of Athens was the center of a significant cultural, political, and military power during
this period where the festivals and competitions were usually performed.
The theater of the ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama:
1. Tragedy
Is a compound of two Greek words, “tragos” or “goat” and “ode” meaning song, referring to goats
sacrificed to Dionysus before performances, or to goat –skins worn by the performers.
In Greece, tragedy was the most admired type of play. It dealt with tragic events and have an unhappy
ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character.
Thespis > the 1st actor and introduced the use of masks and was called as the “Father of Tragedy”.
2. Comedy plays
were derived from imitation; there were no traces of origin. Aristophanes wrote most of the comedy
plays. Out of these 11 plays, LYSISTRATA survived, a humorous tale about a strong woman who led
a female coalition to end war in Greece. Euripides also wrote Cyclops, an adventurous comedy.
3. Satyr play
contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.
This play was a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed.
It is an ancient Greek form of tragic comedy.
This featured half-man / half-goat characters known as Satyrs. They were awful, ridiculous, and
usually drunk.
The Satyr characters lusted after everyone on stage, and they delivered the most humorous lines,
often at the expense of others.
Theater building were called theatron.
Theater – a large, open-air structures constructed on the slopes of a hill. It consists of three main
elements: the orchestra, the skene, and the audience.
Orchestra – a large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theater, where the play,
dance, religious rites, and acting took place.
Theatron – viewing place on the slope of a hill
Skene – stage
Parados – side entrance
ROMAN THEATRE
Theater of ancient Rome started in the 3 rd century BC.
It had varied and interesting art forms, like festival performances of street theater, acrobatics, the
staging of comedies of Plautus, and the high-verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.
Roman culture in the 3rd century BC had an intense and energizing effect on Roman theater and
encouraged the development of Latin literature.
According to Roman historian Livy, in the 4th century BC, the Etruscan actors were the first
experienced theater.
Roman drama began with the plays of Livius Andronicus in 240 BC.
Greek theaters had a great influence on the Roman’s theater too.
Triumvir Pompey – was one of the first permanent (non-wooden) theaters in Rome, structure is similar
to the theatron of Athens.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD THEATRE
During the Medieval era, theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe. To keep the
theater alive, minstrels, though denounced by the Church, performed in markets, public places and
festivals.
They travelled from one town to another as puppeteers, jugglers, story tellers, dancers, singers, and
other theatrical acts.
These minstrels were viewed as a dangerous and pagan.
Churches in Europe started staging their own theater performances during Easter Sundays with
Biblical stories and events.
Eventually, some plays were brought outside the church due to their portrayal of the devil and hell.
Example of this kind of play is the “Mystere d’ Adam or The Mystery of Adam”. The story revolves
around Adam and Eve and ends with the devil capturing and bringing them to hell.
Over the centuries, the plays revolved around biblical themes from the Story of the Creation to the
Last Judgment.
c. Generalization
The student will report by group the characteristic of each chosen theatre.
d. Application
Chart Completion and Analysis
1. Watch the modern play “The Greatest Showman”.
2. While watching, analyze the theatrical form using the elements of theater arts.
Sounds/Music Gesture/Movements Costumes/Make Spectacle
Up/Accessories
3. Narrate the plot of the story.
IV. Evaluation
Paper and Pencil Test
Write at least 3 sentences about the following words.
A. Greek Theatre
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B. Roman Theatre
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C. Medieval Theatre
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V. Assignment
Answer page 297 Activity in your Music and Arts Module 9 (Chart Completion and Rating)
Prepared by:
MICHELLE S. GATCHALIAN
MAPEH 9 Teacher
