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What Is Theater

Theater is derived from the Greek word "Theatron" meaning a place of seeing. It involves a group of performers mimicking actions and presenting themselves to an audience. Theater is temporal, mimetic, interpretative, and integrated with other art forms. It is a reflection of life that promotes social awareness and transforms audiences. The tools of theater include the body, voice, and imagination through facial expressions and emotions. Drama comes from the Greek word "Dran" meaning "to do or action" and involves physical movement, vocal action, and mental concentration in a play, opera, or other performance for an audience. Forms of drama include mime, pantomime, opera, musicals, closet drama, and impro

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What Is Theater

Theater is derived from the Greek word "Theatron" meaning a place of seeing. It involves a group of performers mimicking actions and presenting themselves to an audience. Theater is temporal, mimetic, interpretative, and integrated with other art forms. It is a reflection of life that promotes social awareness and transforms audiences. The tools of theater include the body, voice, and imagination through facial expressions and emotions. Drama comes from the Greek word "Dran" meaning "to do or action" and involves physical movement, vocal action, and mental concentration in a play, opera, or other performance for an audience. Forms of drama include mime, pantomime, opera, musicals, closet drama, and impro

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WHAT IS THEATER?

1. Theatre is derived from the Greek word, “Theatron”, meaning a place of seeing.
2. It is an activity where interacting persons mimicking some action present themselves to
another group of persons. Two groups interact- the first group acts, the second watches-
where the first performs in an imagined time and space in a second.

QUALITIES OF THEATER:

1. Theater is Temporal (it exist in time)


2. Theater is Mimetic (it recreates human life)
3. Theater is Interpretative (it presents a point of view)
4. Theater is Integrated (it synthesizes the arts merging with the other Discipline)

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPORTANCE OF THEATER:

 Theater is a reflection of life.


 Theater was created to tell the truth about life.
 Theatre promotes social awareness.
 Theater has the power to transform an audience or an individual.
 Theatre opens the hearts, minds and changes lives.
 Theatre is the greatest of all arts.
 Theater prepares you to survive the challenges of life.

TOOLS IN THEATER:

1. Body
2. Voice
3. Imagination
a. Facial Expression
b. Emotion

WHAT IS DRAMA?

1. The term “Drama” comes from a Greek word “Dran” meaning “To do or Action”, which is
derived from “I do”.
2. It is performed by actors on a stage before the audience
3. The broad term 'drama' covers a wide area of techniques incorporating physical movement,
vocal action, and mental concentration.
4. A play for theatre, radio, or television
5. An exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances
6. It is the specific mode of Fiction represented in performance: a Play, Opera, Mime, Ballet, etc,
performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

FORMS OF DRAMA

1. Mime – is a form of drama where the action of a story is told only through the movement of
the body
2. Pantomime – it is a participatory form of theatre. It is a musical comedy stage production.
3. Opera – generally sung throughout
4. Musicals – include both spoken dialogues and songs
5. Closet Drama – is a form that is intended to be read, rather than performed.
6. Improvisation – the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance and performers
devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.

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