ARTS

• THEATER


  *means place of seeing
• GREEK THEATER


  *began in ancient greece

  *began around 700 B.C. with festivals honoring their gods

  *three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play

  *theater buildings were called theatron, were large, open-air structures, constructed on the slope of hills. consisted of three main elements: orchestra, the skene, and the audience
• ORCHESTRA


  a large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theatre, where the play, dance, religious rites, and acting took place
• theatron


  viewing place on the slope of a hilll
• the greek theater


  skene - stage

  parodos - side entrance
• Different Theatrical Forms


  • Ancient Theater
  • Renaissance Theater
• Greek Theater


  • Ritual-theory, focused on god Dionysus, performed in festivals
  • Sophocles and Euripides were the most popular playwrights during ancient period
  • Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone were famous plays
  • Theater genre was tragedy
  • Performed in theatron-viewing place on slope of a hill
  • Women were not allowed to perform
• Roman Theater


  • Began in ancient Greek theater
  • Theater genre comedy
  • Women began to perform
  • Competitions of chariots, gladiators, and public executions as public theaters
• Renaissance Theater


  • Focused on classical Greek and Roman arts and culture
  • Theater designs were developed
• Renaissance Theater


  • Focused on classical Greek and Roman arts and culture
  • Theater designs were developed
  • Backdrops for scenery
  • Queen Elizabeth supported theater
• Famous actor and playwright

  William Shakespeare
• Romantic Period


  • The age of enlightenment
  • Focused on appreciation of the exotic and primitive
  • Used fantastic mythical or nature-focused images
  • Melodrama was the genre of theater
• Famous operatic composers


  • Georges Bizet 'Carmen'
  • Richard Wagner
• Protagonist in Romantic Period theater


  • Rebellious who often succeeded
  • Interest in the common man and childhood
  • Technical innovations were introduced
• BACKDROP


  a painted cloth hung at the back of a theatre stage as part of the scenery
• CHARIOT


  a two-wheeled vehucle drawn by horses, used in ancient racing anad warfare
• COMEDY


  a play characterized by its humurous or satirical tone
• CURTAIN CALL


  the appearance of one or more performerson stage after a performance to acknowledgethe audience's applause
• DECORUM


  behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety depiction of amusing people or incidents
• DRAMA


  from the greek word meaning ''action'' which is derived from the verb meaning to do or to act
• Fabula


  means in russian, story or plot
• MELODRAMA


  a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and eexicting events intended to appeal to the emotions
• OPERA


  an art forrm in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (libretto) and musical score. OPERA HOUSE - a theater designed for the performance of opera
• PLAYWRIGHT


  a person who wright plays
• PLOT


  the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
• TRAVVERN


  a place of business where people gather
• TRAGEDY


  a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending
• TRILOGY


  a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works ultimately triumph over adversity
• BAROQUE THEATER


  marked by the use of technology in current broadways or commercial plays
• FRANCISCO BALTAZAR


  he was apoet and a playwright who wrote the florante at laura
• SALVADOR BERNAL

  known as the father of theater design
• SEVERINO REYES


  the father of tagalog zarsuela
• OEDIPUS REX


  A GOLD MASK with exaggerated deep empty eyesockets, used in the play of sophocles