SPEECH ARTS:

DRAMATIC FORMS
By: Ariel Rivera
STREET THEATRE
By: Reyna F. Agon
 STREET THEATRE
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• presented normally in an outdoor space

in a public area
• one of the oldest forms of theatre
• the performance is often called a found
performance.
• performers are called buskers
• moving performances that happen
through the street during festivals or
during parades or protests.
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Some forms of early Street Theatre include
Ancient Roman Comedy, Medieval Passion
Plays, the Commedia dell arte, the Carnivale or
the Nukkad Natak (Indian Street Theatre).

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During the 20th Century, political and community-based
street performance companies like Welfare State
International, PETA (in The Philippines), the Sarwanam
Theatre Group (in Nepal) and the Bread and Puppet
Theatre Company (founded in 1963 in New York)
expanded the nature and focus of Street Theatre.
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Conceptual Art and the Happenings of the 1960’s also
had their influence on street performance groups such
as Lumiere and Son, John Bull Puncture Repair Kit,
Exploded Eye, the Natural Theatre Company and the
Australian group The Men Who Knew Too Much. These
groups included elements of character-based work,
DaDa, Japanese Kyogen and Circus skills.
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One form of Street Theatre which developed in the 21st Century is
the Flash Mob. A Flash Mob is where a group of people suddenly
assemble in a street or public place and perform a synchronized or
unusual or seemingly pointless act in a short time. Often these
events are organized via social media. With its origins in
conceptual art and the political theatre of Augusto Boal, the first
official Flash Mob was probably one staged in 2003 by Bill Wasik in
Manhattan at Macy’s Department Store.

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Nowadays, Street Theatre can be seen in many forms
throughout most cities in the world. Social Media has
also seen the proliferation of the sharing of Street
Theatre forms and techniques.

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DUET SCENES
By: Alyzza Jessica Superio
Lanie Jowansen E. Mesiona
 Vocabulary
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• Duet Scene
- scene from a play, musical, or film that involves
two people, two chairs, using two or more characters.
• Scoring of a script
- The notation of the placement of beats, blocking,
and vocal elements such as inflections, stresses, and
speaking tempos.
• Blocking / Staging
-Planning and working out the movements and
stage grouping for a play.
• Subtext
-The underlying meaning or interpretation of a line,
which is not indicated in the script but is supplied by the
actor.
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 Selecting the
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• Selecting material for your duet scene may be

your most difficult task.

• Don’t make the mistake of letting someone else

select material for you. Find a selection you
like.

• You need to choose your own material. This is

the only way to reach your true potential.

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 Preparing the
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After reading the script several times, answer the following questions
(page 290):
1. What words do you need to check for meaning and pronunciation?
2. Who (point of view) is speaking in this selection? Who is the
audience?
3. How well are the characters developed in the selection?
4. How effective is the language (descriptive words or dialogue) in the
selection?
5. What are the plot elements (introduction / setting, body, climax,
and conclusion)?
6. What is the mood of the scene?
7. What is the theme of the selection?
8. What is the author’s message?
9. How does this selection affect you and relate to your background?
10. Does this selection have literary merit? Why?

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 Presenting
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templateMaterial

• Have a professional slate. Both you and your scene

partner need to have the slate memorized.
• Take a moment after the slate before you begin the
performance. Use this brief moment to gather your
concentration for the scene.
• Do not improvise or add any blocking, dialogue, or
actions that were not previously set in the rehearsal
period.
• Listen to one another, and concentrate on your
characters’ objectives, obstacles, and tactics.

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MULTIMEDIA
By: Nathalia Mañacap
Aleja M. Pandulo
 Multimedia
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• content that uses a combination of

different content forms such as text,
audio, images, animations, video
and interactive content.

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 Different
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• Text
- a text is any object that can be “read”.
• Audio
- is a representation of sound.
• Images
- that depicts visual perception.
• Animation
- is a method in which pictures are manipulated to
appear as moving images.
• Video
- a recording of moving visual images.
• Interactive Content
-content that requires the participants’ active
engagement.
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 Multimedia
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• content that uses a combination of

different content forms such as text,
audio, images, animations, video
and interactive content.

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PAGEANTRY
By: Shemarie Joy Gayog
 Pageantry
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• A pageant is an elaborate show or parade that

usually depicts a historical or religious event,
although these days more people know, like
beauty pageants.

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 DEFINITIONS OF
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• Noun
- an elaborate representation of scenes from history,
etc.; usually involves a parade with rich costumes
• Representation
- an activity that stands as an equivalent of
something or results in an equivalent
• Noun
- a rich and spectacular ceremony
• Representation
-ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony,
observance, a formal event performed on a special
occasion
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 History
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Pageant came from a word for the wagon stage,

“pagyn”. It is a word used to describe the movable
stage on which a scene of the processional
religious play was performed. Pageant Wagons
Originated in the Middle ages. When they were
used both by the church to stage “mystery plays”
that portrayed major events in the Christian
calendar and by theater troupes that used
portability to evade ecclesiastical authorities who
were opposed to secular theater.
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 History
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Pageants were originally found in York and

Chester as part of the corpus Christi Festival,

The pageants moved around like floats in a

parade. Because of this, the play would be
performed several time in sequence so that more
people could see the arch of the story being told
on stage.

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 THE TERM PAGEANT
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• Pageant is used to refer to the stage, the

play itself, and the spectacle.

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Modern Pageant

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Pageant Wagons

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MUSICAL THEATRE
By: Elli Dunn P. Castandiello
Jannah Elyzah S. Taytayon
 MUSICAL
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- It has been an integral part of theatre in the

Western world as far back as the tragedies and
comedies of Ancient Greece. Music can reveal the
inner emotional life of a character, foreshadow a
vicious attack or budding love, or comment on the
action onstage.

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MUSICAL
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In musical dramas, dramatists not only tell

their stories through acting and dialogue, but
through dance as well as music. Often the
story may be comedic, though it may also
involve serious subjects.
Musicals set out to entertain through a
combination of:
- catchy music in a popular style
-solo songs, duets, choruses and ensembles
-orchestra or band accompaniment
-spoken dialogue
-dance sequences, stage spectacles and
magnificent costumes
These are all held together by the plot.

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 MUSICAL
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Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that

combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The
story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos,
love, anger – are communicated through words, music,
movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as
an integrated whole.
Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works
have generally been called, simply, musicals.
Drama can be combined with music: the dramatic text in
opera is generally sung throughout; as for in some ballet
dance "expresses or imitates emotion, character, and
narrative action".
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 MUSICAL
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- closely related to the theatrical form of opera, but the two

are usually distinguished by weighing a number of
factors.
• First, musicals generally have a greater focus on
spoken dialogue. Some musicals, however, are entirely
accompanied and sung-through, while some operas,
such as Die Zauberflöte, and most operettas, have
some unaccompanied dialogue.

• Second, musicals also usually include more dancing as

an essential part of the storytelling, particularly by the
principal performers as well as the chorus.

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 MUSICAL
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• Third, musicals often use various genres of popular

music or at least popular singing and musical styles.
• Finally, musicals usually avoid certain operatic
conventions. In particular, a musical is almost always
performed in the language of its audience. Musicals
produced on Broadway or in the West End, for instance,
are invariably sung in English, even if they were
originally written in another language. While an opera
singer is primarily a singer and only secondarily an actor
(and rarely needs to dance), a musical theatre
performer is often an actor first but must also be a
singer and dancer.

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 MUSICAL
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Musicals are usually performed in theatres, most famously

on Broadway and in the West End of London. Broadway is
also used as a general term to refer to American musicals.
Every musical has a:
• Libretto the overall text including the spoken and sung
parts
• Lyrics the words to the songs
Most songs fit into these categories:
• Action songs which move the plot forward
• Character songs which enable a character to express
their feelings

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 MUSICAL
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Within these two formats, different song types can be

found, including:
• Ballads which are usually slow, romantic and reflective
• Comedy songs which are funny, so the lyrics are very
important
• Production numbers which involve the full company
and are used to show major changes in location or plot,
and often open and close acts
• Rhythm songs which are driven by energetic rhythm
patterns
Although most musicals use dialogue, some are through-
composed. There is little or no dialogue, nearly everything
is sung.
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 MUSICAL
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Many show songs use 32 bar song form.

The Chorus:
• sets the repeated refrain of the lyrics and often
contains the title words
• usually returns several times, always with the
same words
• is normally the 'catchiest' part of the song

The verse usually has different words with each

repetition.
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A scene from a production of Andrew Lloyd
Webber's Phantom of the Opera

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