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• Theatre - began from myth, ritual, and ceremony
• ”theater” derived from the ancient greek word “theatron” which means “a place of viewing”
• Genre- the type of play
• Music- reveal the inner emotional life of a character
• Props- Compliment and motivate the character, helping the actor feel more ’the part’
• Character- a person in a story. Writers use characters to perform the actions and speak dialogue, moving the story along a plot time.
• Staging- the act, process, or manner of presenting a play on the stage.
• Costume- the clothes worn by actors in a play in order to help tell the story, and help actora get into character.
• Playwright- write the script
• Director- rehearses the performers
• Designer- creates visual aspects of production
• Technical crew- ensures that production runs smoothly and stage is all set and safe
• Producer- responsible for financing, hiring, promoting, and overseeing all elements of production
• Actors and actresses- performers on stage
• Audience- group of people who watch the play
• Greek theater- began in ancient greece around 700BC with festicals honoring their gods and goddesses.
• The theater of ancient greece consis of three types of drama: Tragedy, Comedy, and Satyr play.
• In greek theater, ”theater buildings” were called THEATRON, ”stage“ is SKENE, “side entrance“ is PARODOS, and “large circular area” is ORCHESTRA
• Roman theater is characterized by bloody play
• Roman theater plays were chariot races, gladiators, and public executions. The more realistic the violence, the more it pleased roman audiences.
• Medieval theater is characterized by traveling from one town to another as puppeteers, jogglers, story tellers, dancers, singers, and other theatrical act.
• Renaissance theater is characterized by a return of classical greek and roman arts and culture.
• In renaissance theater, public theater was developed like, the commedia dell’arte for entertainment purposes.
• Queen elizabeth 1 was the most prominent supporters of the renaissance theater
• In renaissance theater, William shakespeare emerged in this period. He was often called England’s National poet and the “Bard of Avon”
• During renaissance period, ballet was considered as formalized dance for the court and also known as court ballet.
• Baroque theater is characterized by broadways and commercial plays. in this theater, is uses machines for special effects and scence changes or background changes with the use of ropes and pulleys
• Neo-Classical theater is a movement where the style of the roman and greek societies influenced the theater arts. It is characterized by its grandiosity.
• In Neoclassical theater, Costumes and sceneries were highly elaborate. Main concepts of the play were to entertain and to teach lesson.
• Neo-classical theater plays tragedy and comedy. this period where the first spot light was used called ”limelight” and the theater regulations act of 1843 banned drinking in legitimate theater
• During Romantic theater melodrama and operas became the most popular theatrical forms. Melodrama is a dramatic work that puts the character in a lot of danger while Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic text called libretto and musical score
• In romantic theater, Victor Marie Hugo is known as best french writer and George Bizet is the famous romantic composer.
• Francisco balagtas also known as francisco baltazar from panginay, biga a bulacan.

  • best known work is “florante and Laura”
  • imprisoned under the accusations that he ordered a servant girl‘s head to shaves
  • died on february 20, 1862 at the age of 73 because of pneumonia.
  • Balagtasan a filipino debate in extemporaneous verse is names after him
• Severino R. Reyes is a filipino writer, dramatist and playwright. Known as the “Father of the tagalog Zarzuela”
• Severino R. Reyes

  • in 1992 he founded and directed the “Grand compania de zarzuela tagala”
  • He co-founded the “liwayway” a tagalog literary weekly published a series of fairytale titled “Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang”
  • died on september 15, 1942
• Dr. Ricardo G. Abad involved as actor and director in over 120 productions while at the same time doing sociological work as a teache, researcher, and editor.
• Dr. Ricardo G. Abad

  • directed and acted for professional company like, theatro pilipino, and tanghalang pilipino
  • write “romeo and juliet”
• Salvador F. Bernal is the father of theatre design in the philippine.
• Salvador F. Bernal

  • the first to develop theater design as a professional and elevate it to an art form
  • designed more than 250 productions in ballet, theater and film
  • alsi a national artist awardee
• Theater- a colaborative form of performing art