CSET 3 THA

• Dramatic play and guided drama helps develop: perception skills, social-emotional skills, awareness, poise, confidence, creativity, communication skills, and critical thinking skills
• Theatre arts can be used to teach history by allowing students to experience historical events through the eyes of people who lived during that time period.
• Drama is an effective tool for teaching literature because it allows students to explore characters' motivations and emotions more deeply than reading alone.
• elements of theatre

  • acting
  • theatre
  • drama
  • improvisation
  • scriptwriting
  • technical support tools
  • stage
• stage: the structure where all the drama and theatre takes place
• technical support tools: costumes, sets, lights, props, makeup, and sound
• scriptwriting: writing scripts based on culture, imagination, literature, and personal life experiences
• improvisation: create, cooperative, spontaneous, and flexible response to changing and unexpected dramatic stimuli
• drama: the reenactment of life situations for entertainment and human understanding
• theater can be performed in various venues such as proscenium arch theater, thrust stage theater, arena theater, black box theater, outdoor theater, and puppet theater.
• acting: the art of performing roles or characters convincingly through speech, gestures, facial expressions, and body movements
• theatre is an art form that uses live performers to present stories through dialogue, movement, gesture, music, dance, spectacle, and other forms of visual arts
• theatre has been around since ancient times when it was used as a way to tell stories and communicate ideas
• characterization: creating believable and memorable characters by developing their physical appearance, personality traits, backstory, relationships with other characters, and motivations
• theatre: the formal presentation of of a scripted play
• theatre contains: plot and conflict, setting, character, language, and rhythm and unity
• acting: the development and communication of characters in formal or informal productions or improvisations
• designer: the person responsible for designing sets, costumes, lighting, sound, props, makeup, and hair
• technical director: the person responsible for overseeing technical elements such as set construction, lighting design, and sound engineering
• director: the person who oversees all aspects of a production from casting to staging and interpretation
• To understand character choices, the character must be analyzed
• elements of drama: the terms developed by Aristotle to explain how good dramatic performances were created. Includes character, diction, melody, plot, spectacle, and thought
• character (elements of drama): the "who" of the story
• diction (element of drama): language/ dialogue used by the playwright
• melody (element of drama): music or what is communicated by the chorus
• plot (element of drama): the sequence of events that make up the story
• spectacle (element of drama): visual elements such as costumes, scenery, lighting, etc.
• thought (element of drama): ideas expressed through words and actions (including theme and moral)
• conventions of theatre: rules/ guidelines used in a particular performance to create the world of the play (ex: suspension of disbelief and the fourth wall)
• technical elements develop the environment, diverse characters, mood, action, and theme
• technical elements include: backstage, box office, downstage, house, offstage, personal props, props, riser, preset, set, stage, and trap
• backstage: the part of the theater not seen by the audience
• box office: where tickets are sold
• house: seating area of the theater
• downstage: the part of the stage closes to the audience
• offstage: the part of the stage the audience can't see
• personal props: props carried on an actor
• riser: platform used onstage to create different levels
• preset: when something used in a play is set out onstage before the performance
• set: the setting of the stage