MAPEH Theater

• Theater - means place of seeing
• In theater play, the Shape of the stage is important because it helps the audience to stimulate their emotions
• 3 TYPES OF THEATER STAGE

  
  

  • Arena
  • Thrust
  • Proscenium
• Arena - Earliest type of theater, the audience surrounds all side of the stage
• Thrust - The audience is only in three sides of the stage
• Proscenium - The audience is only on one side
• GREEK THEATER - started at about 70 B.C., honoring their many gods with festivals. The theater were large open air structures constructed on a slope of a hill. It is consisted to 3 main elements
• Orchestra - a large circular/rectangular at the center part of the theater where all acts took place
• THeatron - known as the viewing place
• Skene - the stage in the theater
• Parados - the side entrance
• Roman Theater - began in the 3rd century BC
• Roman Chariots - usual themes for Roman Theater plays
• Triumvir Pompey - one of the first permanent (non-wooden) theater in Rome
• Medieval Theater -500 C.E - 1400
• Theater events were not allowed all over Europe during the medieval period
• (Medieval Theater) the theater performed in markets, public areas, and festivals.
• Two major kinds of stages in the medieval theatre

  • Fixed
  • Moveable
• RENAISSANCE THEATER (1400 - 1600) - The theater buildings were round, square, or octagonal
• One of the most prominent supporters of this theater was Queen Elizabeth I
• The players that performed on Elizabeth's stage were called professionals
• BAROQUE THEATER (1600-1750) -is distinguished using technology in modern.
• Baroque Theater uses machines for special effects and the scene can easily change with the use of ropes and pulley
• NEOCLASSICAL THEATER (1800 - 1900) - The theater was characterized by its grandiosity. The costumes and scenery were highly detailed.
• Two types of plays during neoclassical

  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
• ROMANTIC THEATER (1800-2000)
• The most popular theater styles during the romantic period Melodrama and Operas
• Melodrama originated from the French Word "Melodrame", derived from Greek Melos, meaning music and French Drame derived from Greek Dran to "perform"
• Melos means MUSIC
• Dran means to PERFORM
• LIGHTNING DESIGN - as critical as the stage settings, it creates an overall mood and nneds to be almost flawless.
• Spotlight - first used in the US during the NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD and was called Limelight
• COSTUME DESIGN - helps to convey certain time periods and historical context that allows the audience to understand the scene easily and identify characters
• Francisco Balagtas Y Dela Cruz also known as Francisco Baltazar
• Florante at Laura - one of Francisco's best known works
• He learned how to write poetry from Jose de la Cruz also known as Huseng Sisiw
• Severino R Reyes - also known as the Father of Tagalog Zarzuela
• (Severino) One of the giants of Tagalog Literature. in 1923, he co founded Liwayway
• Liwayway - Tagalog literary that published a series of fairy tales titled Mga Kwento ni lola Basyang
• Walang Sugat - one of Severino's masterpieces, its about the cruel fate love of Tenyong and Julia mixed with humor and song. Julia's mother pressures her into marrying Miguel