Types of Theater

• Absurd

  • A genre of modern play that deliberately exaggerates the events and situations to emphasize a point.
  • The characters are often stereotypes
  • This form originated from the West
• Stage show

  • Also known as bodabil.
  • A theatrical presentation of various acts and performances.
  • It could be comedy skits, circus acts, musical and dance numbers, acrobatics, magic shows, and the like.
• • Bodabil was developed because city growers wanted to uplift their emotional stability from the usual stage acts to a stage presentation.
• Famous Bodabil Performers

  Bayani Casimiro

  Delly Atay-Atayan
• Brechtian Theater

  • Also referred to as Epic Theater
  • It is based on Bertoit Brecht’s proposition that the audience should not emotionally identify with the characters or action on stage but instead stimulate self-reflection and critical analysis of the events unfolding in the play.
• Children's Theater

  • Plays that are performed by children or by adults for children.
  • This is intended to educate, inspire and encourage creativity and value formation.
• Melodrama

  • A nonmusical play that is intended to elicit tears and emotional attachment to the characters.
• Dramatic Monologue

  • An individual actor speaks and acts out the character’s thoughts and emotions.
  • One-person performance
  • Often used for audience to better understand a main character
• Tula-Dula

  • It was developed by the University of the Philippines in 1970s.
  • It is minimalist in attack wherein a poem is dramatized by a narrator who recites the piece while two or three actors provide the movement and the sound effects.
• Political Theater

  • It intends to transform or improve the current system of government.
  • Some political dramas are direct to the point, while others use symbolism and allegory to air their political views
• Charot (PETA)

  • CHAROT IS A POLITICAL SATIRE THAT DOESN’T SHY AWAY FROM ITS HIGHLY APPARENT STANCE ON THE POLARIZING ISSUES OF OUR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE.
• Musical Theater

  • Music is an essential part of the production.
  • This includes traditional Filipino theater such as sarswela and ritualistic dramas.
  • One of the most popular forms of theater.
• Realism

  • A type of drama that provides an accurate depiction of real-life situations.
  • This is achieved through the well-developed and authentic portrayal of characters as well as realistic plot, dialogue and staging
• Night Mother is a realism about a child commiting suicide