1. Theatre or Theater
Is a collaborative form of performing art that uses
live performers, usually actors or actresses to
present the present the experience of a real or
imagined event before a live audience in a specific
place often a stage.
Modern theatre includes performances of plays and
musical theatre.
2. Types:
Is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.
Comes from a Greek word meaning “action”, which is
derived from the verb “to do” or “to act”
Often combined with music and dance.
The drama in opera is generally sung throughout;
musicals generally include both spoken dialogue and
songs and some forms of drama have incidental music or
musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue.
Drama
3. Musical Theatre
Music and theatre have had a close
relationship since ancient times.
Musical theatre may be produced on an
intimate scale Off-Broadway in regional
theatres and elsewhere, but it often includes
spectacle.
4. Comedy
Theatre productions that use humour as
a vehicle to tell a story qualify as
comedies
Examples: mga pelikula ni Dolphy,
Babalu, Vice Ganda etc.
5. Tragedy
Tragedy then is an imitation of an action that
is serious, complete and of a certain
magnitude: in language embellished with
each kind of artistic ornament, the several
kinds being found in separate parts of the
play; in the form of action, not of narrative;
through pity and fear effecting the proper
purgation of these emotions.
-Aristotle, Poetics
6. Refers to a specific tradition of
drama that has played a unique
and important role historically in
the self-definition of Western
civilization.
7. Improvisation
Has been a consistent feature of theatre, with
the Commedia dell’arte in the sixteenth
century being recognised as the first
improvisation form.
