Theatre and Performance

Arts on Stage and on the

Streets
Josefino Tulabing Larena, AB, CPS,MPA
Learning Objective
 Describe performance arts in the
Philippine regions.
 Identify the contemporary
performance and theatre artists and
determine their contribution to the
development of performing arts.
 Appreciate performance and theatre
arts guided by the typology of forms
 Plan a performance that conveys a
message about a particular issue in a
dramatic sense.
Theatre Production
 1. Performance Arts
 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. There
is also a specialized form of fine art, in
which the artists perform their work
live to an audience.
 2. Theatre Arts.
 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.
Example : Performance Arts
Example : Theatre Arts
The elements of dramatic
theatrical performance
 1. Plot
 The main events of
a play, novel,
movie, or similar
work, devised and
presented by the
writer as an
interrelated
sequence.
 2.Character -a
person in a novel,
play, or movie.
 3. Thought -
the action or
process of
thinking.
 4. Language or diction
 Diction -its original, primary
meaning, 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
 5.Song or Music –refers to the
speaking ,dancing and singing part in
the performance.
 6.Spectacle-an event or scene
regarded in terms of its visual impact.

 7. Director-a person who supervises
the actors, camera crew, and other
staff for a movie, play, television
program, or similar production
 8.Playwright- A playwright, also
known as a dramatist, is a person who
writes plays.
 9.Theater Space-(with a focus on
Proscenium,Thrust Stage, Theatre in
the Round, Black Box Theater)
The Four basic theatre stages
are the following:
 1. Proscenium -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. The picture
above shows the
Proscenium Arch of the
York Theatre Royal in the
UK.
 2. Arena or circle
stage- In theatre and
performing arts,
the stage is a
designated space for
the performance of ...
In theatre in the round,
the audience is located
on all four sides of
the stage.
 3.Thrust Stage
 a stage that
extends into the
auditorium so that
the audience is
seated around
three sides.
 4. Created and Found
 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.
Style in Philippine Theatre
Arts
 Theater, as the performing art that
consists of acting in front of an
audience, uses a combination of
gesture, music,dance, sound, speech
,or a narrative .Theater takes many
forms ,such as plays, musical,opera,
ballet or a combination of
contemporary forms.
According to Nicanor
Tiangson
 Most of the Original
plays of today were
written for literary
contests or evolved
through workshops or
created for semi-
professional
companies ,student
drama organizations
and numerous
community theatre
groups all over the
country.
Outstanding directors who have
contributed to the development
of Modern Philippine Theater
 Lamberto Avellana y Vera was
born in Bontoc in the Mountain
Province on 12 February 1915. He
studied at Ateneo de Manila,
where he learned about his
passion and talent for the theater
arts. He became a teacher at
Ateneo, and aspired to promote
Filipino theater.

 He met Daisy Hontiveros who

acted in plays staged by the
University of the Philippines.
Hontiveros and Avellana formed a
theater arts group called the
Barangay Theater Guild, which
has had members such as Leon
Founder of Repertory Philippines
 Zenaida Amador
 THE “MOTHER” of the
country’s oldest theater
group, Repertory
Philippines, Zenaida
“Bibot” Amador left behind
a legacy of theater
excellence and a “brood”
of world-class stage
artists when she died of
lung cancer last Nov. 28.
 Amador formed Repertory
Philippines Foundation
Inc. as president and
artistic director in 1967,
training theater hopefuls
including Lea Salonga
and Monique Wilson of
Antonio Mabesa
 Last September, Professor Emeritus
Antonio “Tony” Mabesa received
this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining,
the highest award given by the Cultural
Center of the Philippines (CCP) every
three years. This recent achievement,
though, is just one of Prof. Mabesa’s
many accomplishments in a career that
spans more than six productive
decades.
 Prof. Mabesa is best known for his
works in the theater and is widely
considered one of the country’s finest
directors, having directed some 170
productions. He is also a prolific actor,
having acted in countless plays, films,
and TV shows.
Behn Cervantes
 Theater and film director and
activist Benjamin “Behn”
Cevantes
 A renowned activist who was
jailed during Martial Law
alongside his friend, the late
National Artist for Film Lino
Brocka, Cervantes was a
leading figure in Philippine
theater, both as director and
actor.
 From the 1970s through the
late 1980s, the mercurial
Cervantes staged numerous
political plays with the
student actors of UP
Repertory.
 He was also acclaimed for
directing the landmark
political film “Sakada”.
Lutgardo Labad
 A native of Baclayon, Bohol, where
Cesar Montano and director Maryo,
are distinguished province-mates,
Labad was one of the original
members of PETA (Philippine
Educational Theater Association) in
the early ’70s where Brocka and actor-
director Cecile Guidote Alvarez were
two of the pioneers. “I started
composing for PETA in 1968 through
the prodding of Cecile (Guidote) who
inspired me to do creative music for
her theater works starting with
production of Crucible and her own
version of Larawan. It was at PETA
where I met Lino (Brocka) who was
then our publicity officer. He wanted
me to compose music for his movies. I
would say that it was in Tinimbang
where I got my first big break. It was
his first produced film and almost all of
PETA got involved. It was a very
exciting time for me.
Cecile (Guidote) Alvarez
 Cecile Guidote-
Alvarez (born
November 13, 1943)
founded the
Philippine Educational
Theater Association
(PETA), a pioneering
theater group that
honed creative artists
and audiences
through children’s,
college, and
community theater.
She was recognized
as National Artist for
Soxy Topacio
 Soxy has been also a
Resident Artist of PETA
since 1969, a Program
director of Kalinangan
Ensemble from 1982-
1986, PETA Executive
Director from 1986-
1994, a member of the
Board of Trustees from
1995 to present, a
member of Afredo
Salanga Foundation
Board of Trustees from
1990-1992, a member
of the PETA Artistic Com
from 2004-2006 and a
membership committee
from 2005 to present.
Joel Lamangan
 In 2013, Lamangan
was named as the
artistic director of
Gantimpala Theater
Foundation. Lamangan
will direct an original
musical titled
"Katipunan: Mga Anak
ng Bayan" and it will
star actors Sandino
Martin and Anna Fegi.
The show toured in
August and September
of 2013 around
provinces of Manila to
celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the birth
of Philippine hero,
Baby Barredo
 Ms Baby Barredo, one of
the founders of
Repertory Philippines, is
better known in the
theater community as
“Tita Baby”. Being
almost everyone’s “tita”
really made this
community one big
happy family. And just
like how in any family,
the children grow up and
start putting up their own
families, most of the new
theater companies that
get built up are mostly
alumni of Repertory
Philippines
Joonee Gamboa
 Filipino actor and
voice actor. As
veteran actor, he
appeared in more
than 145 movies
and television
shows.
Realism
 The Filipino Playwrights adopted
realism as a style in theater
arts.Realism in the contemporary
modern theater follows two
tendencies: the psychological ,which
focuses on the problems of individuals
and the social,which situates and
roots individual problems within the
larger framework of a class society.
Psychological Realism
 Outstanding psychological studies of
character are found in some English
plays
 Wilfrido Maria Guerrero
 Filipino playwright, director, teacher
and theater artist. Guerrero wrote well
over 100 plays, 41 of which have been
published. His unpublished plays have
either been broadcast over the radio
or staged in various parts of the
Nick Joaquin
 dfg
Orlando Nadres
 oyu
Bienvenido Noriega Jr.
Tony Perez
 sdre
Bobby Flores Villasis
 Demigod
Elsa Victoria Martinez
Coscoluela
Social Realism
 Social Realism is a
naturalistic realism focusing
specifically on social issues and the
hardships of everyday life. The term
usually refers to the urban American
Scene artists of the Depression era,
who were greatly influenced by the
Ashcan School of early 20th century
New York.
Alberto Florentino

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