LESSON 11 THEATER ARTS

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  • Theater
    An art form that involves performing carefully planned actions and emotions in front of an audience
  • The term "theater"

    Derived from the Greek word theaomai, meaning "to see"
  • Elements of Theater
    • Plot
    • Conflict
    • Performers
    • Audience
    • Director
    • Theme
    • Language and Diction
    • Sound
    • Spectacle
    • Playwright
    • Theater Space
  • Plot
    The arrangements or sequence of events on the stage
  • Elements of a plot

    • Exposition
    • Rising Action
    • Climax
    • Falling Action
    • Denouement
  • Types of conflict

    • Character vs Self
    • Character vs Character
    • Character vs Nature
  • Performers
    The people that act on the main characters and events of the story and provide the vehicle for the conflict
  • Audience
    The performers have to present in front of an audience and connect with it
  • Director
    Serves as an overseer to the entire production, ensures performers are doing their job well and production design works well
  • Theme
    The main idea or the main reason why the play was written
  • Language and Diction

    The dialogue and expression of the performers through words
  • Sound
    Everything that is heard in the play, including voices, incidental songs, background music, and instruments
  • Spectacle
    Every visual effect element of theater, such as the set, costume, lightning, makeup, and props
  • Playwright
    Also known as dramatist, the person who writes plays
  • Theater Space

    Where the play occurs, may also refer to the space for the audience to sit or stand
  • Forms and Types of Philippine Theater
    • Dulang Pahiyang
    • Dulambayan
    • Teatrong Pansimbahan
    • Theater as Art
    • Indigenous Theater
    • Theater with Anglo-American Influence
  • Dulang Pahiyang

    • Rituals
    • Duplo
    • Bayok
    • Balitaw
  • Rituals
    A way to communicate with gods or spirits, involves a shaman being possessed by a spirit
  • Duplo
    A poetic debate, the balagtasan was derived from this
  • Bayok
    A Maranao mimetic joust, with two or more singers interpreting the theme in a spontaneous song-dance-debate
  • Balitaw
    A poetic debate between a man and a woman, may also refer to the song, lyrics, dance or the entire performance
  • Dulambayan
    Also known as people's theatre, theatre in the context of social movements, plays aim to improve current systems of government
  • Street Theater

    Theatre presented outside the theatre building and without the stage area, including political theatre
  • Teatrong Pansimbahan

    • Komedya
    • Dapit
    • Flores
    • Hudas
    • Huling Hapunan
    • Moriones
    • Paghuhugas ng Paa
    • Panunuluyan
    • Pastores or Shepherd's Dance
    • Osana
    • Pangangaluluwa
    • Siete Palabras
    • Sinakulo
    • Salubong
    • Soledad
    • Tatlong Hari
    • Via Crucis
  • Komedya
    A play in verse that portrays the lives of saints or depict actual events
  • Dapit
    The tradition of fetching the image of the community's patron saint
  • Flores
    • Flores de Mayo
    • Alay
    • Flores de Maria
  • Hudas
    The burning of the image of Judas Iscariot, popular in Bulacan, Pampanga, and Cebu
  • Huling Hapunan
    An actual supper enacted to commemorate the last supper of Jesus with his disciples
  • Moriones
    A short street play portraying the capture and beheading of Roman soldier Longinus
  • Paghuhugas ng Paa
    A short ritual re-enacting Christ washing the feet of his disciples before the Last Supper
  • Panunuluyan
    A procession that reenacts Mary and Joseph's search for an inn in Bethlehem
  • Pastores or Shepherd's Dance
    A re-enactment of shepherds honouring the infant Jesus
  • Osana
    A short re-enactment of the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem
  • Pangangaluluwa
    A tradition involving carollers who go to each house in the community to act like souls in purgatory and beg for alms
  • Siete Palabras
    A re-enactment of the last three hours of Jesus Christ on the cross
  • Sinakulo
    A play performed during the Holy Week, depicting the story of salvation
  • Salubong
    A short re-enactment focusing on the meeting of Mary, mother of Jesus and Jesus Christ who rose from the dead
  • Soledad
    A procession portraying Mary's grief after burying Jesus Christ
  • Tatlong Hari

    A re-enactment of the travel of the Magi to worship the infant Jesus in Bethlehem