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TOPIC 3: THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE

• Theatrical performance is the staging and execution of a production like drama, opera, festivals,
and the like. This pertains to a public presentation of a dramatic or musical entertainment. It
involves a lot of teamwork that includes the producer, the director, the cast, and crew of
worker. It also uses technology whether traditional, digital, multi-media, innovative or
alternative which is a vital part of any performance.
• Contemporary theatrical performance is experimental, innovative and interdisciplinary, going
beyond theater and other art forms like puppetry, cinema and sculpture.
• It also goes out to other disciplines like psychology and the social and political sciences. PETA’s
Rak of Aegis, is one specific example of contemporary theatrical performance. This is a musical
tribute to the Filipino 90’s band, Aegis. It used the integration of music, theater and dance to
create a hybrid piece of art.
• The performing arts may include dance, music, opera, theatre and musical theatre, magic,
illusion, mime, spoken word, puppetry, circus arts, performance art, recitation and public
speaking. It is a specialized form of fine art, in which the artists perform their work live to an
audience.
• Theatre or theater 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.

The elements of dramatic theatrical performance are:

• Plot – is the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the
writer as an interrelated sequence.
• Character – is a person in a novel, play, or movie.
• Thought – is the action or process of thinking.
• Language or diction – refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and
style of expression in a poem or story. Language definition, a body of words and the systems for
their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical
• Song or Music – refers to the speaking, dancing and singing part in the performance.
• Spectacle – is an event or scene regarded in terms of its visual impact.
• Director – is a person who supervises the actors, camera crew, and other staff for a movie, play,
television program, or similar production
• Playwright – is also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.
• Theater Space - (with a focus on Proscenium, Thrust Stage, Theatre in the Round, Black Box
Theater)

The Four basic theatre stages are the following:

• Proscenium –is the Proscenium Arch was the most common form of theatre building in the 18th,
19th and 20th centuries. The “Arch” acts like a picture frame through which the action can be
seen.
• Arena or circle stage - in theatre and performing arts, the stage is a designated space for the
performance, the audience is located on all four sides of the stage.
• Thrust Stage – is a stage that extends into the auditorium so that the audience is seated around
three sides.
• Created and Found – is a stage can also be improvised where ever a suitable space can be found.
Examples may include staging a performance in a non-traditional space such as a basement of a
building, a side of a hill or, in the case of a busking troupe, the street. In a similar manner, a
makeshift stage can be created by modifying an environment.

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