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Pag May Tanong Ka: Wag Makulit Ang Budhi!

Theater is a collaborative art form that uses live performers to present experiences to an audience. It originated in ancient Greece and involved plays, music, dance and costumes. Theater involves many roles like producers, directors, actors, designers and technicians. It has evolved from ancient Greek and Roman traditions involving tragedies, comedies and other dramatic works performed in theaters and auditoriums.

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Pag May Tanong Ka: Wag Makulit Ang Budhi!

Theater is a collaborative art form that uses live performers to present experiences to an audience. It originated in ancient Greece and involved plays, music, dance and costumes. Theater involves many roles like producers, directors, actors, designers and technicians. It has evolved from ancient Greek and Roman traditions involving tragedies, comedies and other dramatic works performed in theaters and auditoriums.

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PAG MAY TANONG

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WAG MAKULIT ANG BUDHI!


THEATER
Performing Arts
DEFINITION
• A collaborative form of fine art that uses live
performers to present the experiences of real
or imagined event before a live audience in a
specific place.
• The performers may communicate this
experience to the audience through
combinations of gesture, speech, song,
music, and dance.
• The specific place of the performance is also
named by the word “theatre or theater” as
derived from the Ancient Greek theatron,
which means “a place for viewing.”
THEATRE REFERS TO:
The acting
The building
Plays themselves
Administrators
Scenery
Costumes
Make-up
Light
The difference between “theatre and drama”
• Theatre can refer to a whole theatrical
production whereas drama refers to the plays
themselves.
• The study of plays is referred to as
dramaturgy.
• Theatre can mean a building, whereas drama
cannot.
THEATER
Is a COLLABORATIVE ART
Theatre is a Collaborative Art
• Producer- finances, hiring, promoting, etc.
• Director- supervises rehearsals, controls and
develops his/her “vision” of the play.
• Actors- perform the roles/characters.
• Designer- creates the visual aspects of
production: scenery, costumes, props, make-up,
lighting, sound, etc.
• Builders- technical crew, build and paint the set,
make the costumes, etc.
More collaborators
• Crews- execute changes in scenery, light and
sound cues, placement and return of properties.
• Stage Manager- runs the “live” production.
• House Manager- admits and seats
audience.
• The Playwright- his work is generally done
away from the theatre building itself.
HISTORY
Of Theatre Arts
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
• The city-state of Athens is where western
theatre originated.
• It was part of broader culture of
theatrically and performance in classical
Greece that includes festivals, religious
rituals, politics, law, athletics and
gymnastics, music, poetry, weddings,
funerals, and symposia
• Participation in the city-state’s many
festivals- and attendance at the City
Dionysia as an audience member (or
even as a participant in the
theatrical productions) in particular
– was an important part of
citizenship.
• The Greeks also developed the
concepts of dramatic criticism,
acting as a career, and theatre
architecture.
• The theatre of ancient Greece
consisted of three types of drama:
tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play.
Origins of Theatre in Ancient Greece
• According to Aristotle (384-322 BCE), the first
theoretician of theatre, are to be found in the
festivals that honored Dionysus.
• The performances were given in semi-circular
auditoria cut into hillsides, capable of seating
10,000-20,000 people.
• The stage consisted of a dancing floor
(orchestra), dressing room, and scene-building
are (skene).
• Since the words were the most
important part, good acoustics and
clear delivery were paramount.
• The actors (always men) wore masks
appropriate to the characters they
represented, and each might play
several parts.
Athenian Tragedy
-the oldest surviving form of tragedy
-is a type of dance-drama that formed an
important part of theatrical culture of the city-
state

*Most Athenian tragedies dramatize events from Greek mythology,


though The Persians- which stages the Persian response to the news
of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE- is the
notable exception in the surviving drama.
Athenian Comedy
-conventionally divided into three periods,
“Old Comedy”, “Middle Comedy”, and “New Comedy”.
- Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of eleven
surviving plays of Aristophanes, while Middle Comedy is
largely lost (preserved only in relatively short fragments in
authors such as Athenaeus of Naucratis).
- New Comedy is known primarily from the substantial
papyrus fragments of Menader.
- Aristotle defined comedy as a representation of laughable
people that involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that
does not cause pain or disaster.
PARTS OF GREEK THEATRE
Roman Theatre
• Western theatre developed and expanded
considerably under the Romans.
• The Roman historian Livy wrote that the Romans
first experienced theatre in the 4th century BCE
with a performance of Etruscan actor.
• Beacham argues that they had been familiar with
“pre-theatrical practices” for some time before
that record contact.
• The theatre of ancient Rome was
thriving and diverse art form, ranging
from festival performances of street
theatre, nude dancing, and acrobatics,
to the staging of Plautu’s broadly
appealing situation comedies, to the
high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies
of Seneca.
• Although Rome had a native tradition of
performance, the Hellenization of Roman culture in
the 3rd century BCE had a profound and energizing
effect on Roman theatre and encouraged the
development of Latin literature of the highest
quality for the stage.
• The only surviving Roman tragedies, indeed the
only plays of any kind from the Roman Empire, are
ten dramas- nine of them pallilara- attributed to
Lucuis Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 56 A.D.), the
Corduba-born Stoic philosopher and tutor of Nero.
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