MAPEH8-quarter 4: Theater Arts

• Chinese Peking Opera


  China is known for their traditional theater art form, the Peking Opera
• Red color


  denotes loyalty and goodness
• white


  denotes evil
• Black


  denotes integrity
• Chou


  male clown role, usually plays secondary roles whose name also means "ugly"
• Visual Performance Elements


  • Song
  • Speech
  • Dance-acting (pure dance, pantomime, all other types of dance)
  • Combat (both acrobatics and fighting with all manner of weaponry)
• Meaning of colors used in masks/makeup in Peking Opera

  • Red - devotion, courage, bravery, uprightness, loyalty
  • Black-roughness and fierceness
  • Yellow - fierceness, ambition, cool-headedness
  • Purple-uprightness, sophistication, call-headedness
  • Reddish Purple - just and noble character
  • Blue-loyalty, fierceness, sharpness
  • white - dangerousness, suspiciousness, craftiness
  • Green- impulsiveness and violent and stubbornness
  • Xiaohualian (petty painted face) - small patch of chalk on and around the nose
• Props


  table and at least one chair
• Kabuki of Japan


  kabuki -form of traditional Japanese drama, originally used as a verb meaning "act dissolutely", ka = song, bu= dance, ki = art / skill, "translated as art of singing and dancing", known for stylization of drama
• kabuku


  "to lean" or "to be out of the ordinary", kabuki can be "bizarre" theater
• kabukimono


  bizarrely dressed and paraded on a street
• Hanamichi


  flower path, walkway which extends into the audience
• Okuni - also performs on a hanamichi
• Kayakudo


  kabuki theaters that have stages both in front of the audience
• mawar butal


  interior of the theater contains a revolving stage above
• Suppon


  platform that rises from below the stage
• Hanamicno


  walkway that cuts through the audience seating area to connect the stage with the back of the theater
• some stages have 17 trapdoors
• Three main Categories of the Kabuki Play

  • Jidaimono-historical or pre-Sengoku period stories
  • Sewamono-domestic or post-sengoku stories
  • shosagoto - dance pieces
• Jidaimono


  history plays, set within the context of major events in Japanese history to the Shogunate
• Sewamono


  focused primarily upon commoners, related to themes of family drama and romance
• mie


  actor holds a picturesque pose to establish his character and his house name yago
• yago


  sometimes heard in a loud shout (kakegoe) from an expert audience member
• kesho


  greater compliment can be paid by shouting the name of the actor's father
• Actors


  • Onna-gata female roles
  • Aragoto male roles
• makeup


  one of the most iconic parts of kabuki, Blue and Red are usually aragoto roles, onna gata playing young women have very little paint
• Oshiroi


  white base for characteristic stage makeup
• kumadori


  enhances or exaggerates facial lines to produce dramatic animal or supernatural character
• Five Acts


  • jo - auspicious and slow opening, introduces characters and plot to the audience
  • Ha- Speeding events up, great moment for drama and tragedy
  • possibly a battle in the second and/or third acts
  • Kyu-almost always short; quick and satisfying conclusion
• Water


  represented by fluttering rolls of linen or creatures like insects and foxes
• Fans


  used to symbolize wind, sword, tobacco pipe, waves, or food
• Kimono and obi


  generally worn by female characters
• hakuma trousers


  worn by character of sexes
• Wayang Kulit of Indonesia

  Wayang-kinds of puppet theaters, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang, Kulit means skin, refers to the leather construction of puppets
• Performances of shadow puppet theaters are accompanied by a gamelan orchestra in Java, and by gender wayang in Bali
• Stories drawn from Hindu Epics

  • Ramayana
  • Mahabharata
  • Serat menak story about heroism of Amir Hamza
• Wayang kulit performance


  consists of shadows cast on cotton screen and an lamp
• Cempala


  hammer used by dhalang to knock on the puppet box
• kepyak


  metal plates the dhalang hits with his foot
• gamelan


  traditional Indonesian orchestra