Q4 Arts 9 Opera

ARTS 9
Quarter IV
Western Classical
Play/Opera
Learning Competencies:
Identify selected theatrical forms
from different art periods
Research on the history of the
theatrical forms and their evolution
Preliminary Activity
CONTENT
I. What is Theater
II.History of Theatrical Forms
III.Sample Plays
Theater
Theater began Early society These actions
from myth, perceived moved from habit,
ritual and connections to tradition, to
ceremony between actions ritual, to
performed by ceremony due to
groups of human desire and
need for
entertainment
Note: 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 actors
and actresses perform on stage. Then it will
only be a true theater act when an audience
witnesses it.
Now, make your script as a group in
a bond paper. Act it out through
drama, music, singing.
What is Theater?
“place of seeing”
more than the
buildings where
performance take
place.
Art Periods
Ancient Medieval Renaissance
Greek &
Roman
Art Periods
Baroque Neo- Romantic
classical
Different Art Periods
• Greek Theaters were carved out of a hillside .
A. Ancient
• Roman theaters were built up from solid
Theater ground using either cement or stone.
Ancient Theater Terms
Theatron
- Theater buildings
- theater were large, open-air- structures constructed
on the slopes of hills.
- consisted of three main elements: the orchestra, the
skene, and the audience.
a. Theatron – viewing place on slope of a hill
b. Skene – stage
c. Parodos – side entrance
Ancient Theater
Greek Theater
3 Genres of Drama:
-Tragedy.
-Comedy
-Satyr
Greek Theater Genre
TRAGEDY COMEDY SATYR
tragic events derived from combination of
and have an imitation, both comedy
unhappy mirrors the and tragedy
society in a *It featured half-man
ending /half-goat characters
*Thespis first actor humorous known as Satyrs.
in Greek dramaa way
Greek Theater
3 well-known Greek tragedy
playwrights:
▪ Sophocles
▪ Euripides
▪ Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
Roman Theater
• It had varied and interesting art forms such as
performances of street theatre, acrobatics
• The Triumvir Pompey was one of the first permanent
(non-wooden) theaters in Rome
Theatre of Pompey
Roman Theater
Usual themes:
▪chariots races, gladiators, and public
executions (The Romans loved a good
spectacle. They loved to watch combat,
admired for blood sports and gladiator
competition)
▪The Christians however opposed the
barbaric themes of the plays and closed
all theaters.
Roman Theater
▪Comedy plays were popular too in the
Roman Theater
▪Over the centuries, the plays revolved
around biblical themes from the Story
of the Creation to the Last Judgment
Roman Theater
Source: https://www.realmofhistory.com/2020/01/03/12-facts-ancient-roman-gladiators/
Source: http://www.italyswonders.com/about-the-colosseum/
B. Medieval Theater
Medieval Theater
▪Theater performances
were not allowed
throughout Europe. To
keep the theater alive,
minstrels, (through
denounced by the Church),
performed in markets,
public places, and
festivals.
Medieval Theater
▪They travelled from
one town to another
as puppeteers,
jugglers, story tellers,
dancers, singers, and
other performers in
other theatrical acts.
C. Renaissance
theater
Renaissance Theater
▪ Theater arts were
characterized by a
return of Classical
Greek and Roman
arts and culture.
▪Public theatres were
developed like the Theater of the streets
Commedia dell'arte
Renaissance Theater
▪ Queen Elizabeth,
one of the most
prominent
supporters of the
theater
Renaissance Theater
▪ William Shakespeare ,a
playwright and actor
▪regarded as the greatest
writer and dramatist in
the whole world
▪called England's national
poet and the "Bard of
Avon"
RECAP
Bring out 1 half sheet
crosswise
Answer what is asked.
1. 3 Greek Theater Genre in Greek Theater.
2. What were the usual themes in Roman
Theater?
3. Where do minstrels perform during
Medieval era?
4. What were developed in Renaissance
Theater ?
5. Who was one of the most prominent
supporters of Renaissance theater?
D. Baroque
Theater
E. Neoclassical
Theater
F. Romantic
Theater
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