Arts LESSON 1

• Theatrical forms from different art periods

  • Romantic Period Theater
  • Medieval Theater
  • Greek Theater
  • Roman theater
  • Renaissance Theater
  • Baroque Theater
  • Neoclassical Theater

  
• Theatrical forms and evolution

  1. Identify selected theatrical forms

  2. Research on the history of the theatrical forms and their evolution
• Romantic Period Theater


  Melodrama and operas
• Medieval Theater


  Minstrels, puppeteers, jugglers, story tellers, dancers, singers, and other performers in other theatrical acts
• Greek Theater


  • Tragedy
  • Comedy
  • Satyr
• Roman Theater


  • Chariots races, gladiators, and public executions
• Renaissance Theater


  • Mystery plays, Morality plays, University drama, Commedia dell'arte, Masques
• Renaissance Theater


  Return of Classical Greek Roman arts and culture
• Renaissance Theater


  • William Shakespeare, Ballet
• Baroque Theater


  • Use of technology for special effects and scene changes
• Neoclassical Theater


  • Grandiosity, highly elaborate costumes and sceneries, Decorum, Tragedy and Comedy

  
• Theater began from myth, ritual, and ceremony
• Theater


  Place of seeing, more than just the buildings where performance take place

  
• To produce theater, a playwright writes the scripts, the director rehearses the performers, the designer and technical crew produce props to create the scenes, and the actors and actresses performs on stage, then it will only be a true theater act when audience witnesses it
• European theater began in Ancient Greece around 700 BC with festivals honoring their gods
• Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility, has religious festivals called "The Cult of Dionysus" to honor him
• Tragedy


  A compound of two Greek words tragos or "goat" and "won" meaning ode or song, dealt with tragic events and have an unhappy ending specially one concerning the downfall of the main character
• Comedy


  Plays derived from imitation, no traces of their origin
• Satyr


  Plays containing comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending, a short, lighthearted tailpiece performed after each trilogy of tragedies
• Greek Theater building


  • Theatron, large, open-air structures constructed on the sloped of hills, consisting of three main elements: the orchestra, the skene and the audience
• Roman Theater


  • Varied and interesting art forms such as festivals performances of street theater, acrobatics, the staging of comedies of Plautus, and the high-verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca

  
• The Christians opposed the barbaric themes of the Roman plays and closed down all theaters
• Roman Theater


  • Comedy plays were popular, women were allowed to perform
• Roman Theater building


  • The Triumvir of Pompey, a permanent (non wooden) theater, similar structure to the Theatron of Athens, part of a multi-use complex

  
• During the Medieval Era, theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe
• Minstrels


  Performed in markets, public places and festivals, viewed as dangerous and pagan
• Renaissance Theater


  • Mystery plays, Morality plays, University drama, Commedia dell'arte, Masques
• Commedia dell'arte


  Italian comedy and a humorous theatrical presentation performed by professional players who traveled in troupes
• Masque


  A dramatic entertainment consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, song and sometimes players who wore masks, usually presented in court
• Renaissance Theater


  • William Shakespeare, Ballet
• Proscenium


  The area of a theater surrounding the stage opening, arches frame and divide the stage from the audience
• Backdrops


  Popularized by the art of painting clothes
• Commedia dell'arte


  Quick-witted performance of the characters/players
• Baroque Theater


  • Use of technology for special effects and scene changes
• Baroque Theater


  Richly decorated, multiplicity of plot turns and a variety of situations characteristic of Mannerism, succeeded by opera

  
• Neoclassical Theater


  • Grandiosity, highly elaborate costumes and sceneries, Decorum, Tragedy and Comedy

  
• Decorum


  Classical concepts and appropriate social behavior must be observed
• Melodrama


  A dramatic work that puts characters in a lot of danger in order to appeal to the emotions and in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action
• Opera


  An artform in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (liberetto) and musical score, acting, scenery, costumes, and dance were important elements