is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
Theatre or theater
The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.
Theatre or theater
Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience
Théatron
a place for viewing
Théatron, "a place for viewing” from where
Ancient Greek
Theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe" from where
Ancient Greek
Theáomai
"to see", "to watch", "to observe"
Types of Theatrical Performance
OPERA
BALLET
MUSICAL PLAY
OPERA
Is a drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment and orchestral overtures and interludes.
OPERA
Is a kind of performance in which actors sing all or most of the words of a play with music performed by an orchestra.
BALLET
a theatrical art form using dancing, music, and scenery to convey a story, theme, or atmosphere
BALLET
a kind of dancing that is performed on a stage and that uses dance, music, costumes, and scenery to tell a story
BALLET
The communication is through the graceful and creative motion of the body to express the specific emotion
MUSICAL PLAY
Is a theatrical production that is characteristically sentimental and amusing in nature, with a simple but distinctive plot, and offering music, dancing, and dialogue.
PEOPLE INVOLVED
DIRECTOR
ACTORS
STAGE MANAGER
CHOREOGRAPHERS
LIGHT DESIGNERS
SET DESIGNERS
COSTUME DESIGNER
DIRECTOR
Involved in all aspects of theater and brings it together to create a unified production
DIRECTOR
In charge of auditioning and hiring the appropriate actors.
Interpretation and analysis of the story, the script, and the characters.
DIRECTOR
He is charged of with the rehearsal performance of the actors, directing them to draw out his envisioned characters directing them to draw out his envisioned characters
ACTORS
Most important visual components of theater
ACTORS
Use acting skills to portray characters with credibility.