Musicals

 Plays that are completely in song and dance form

 Made popular by London’s West End to New York’s Broadway Theater
 form of dramatic production combining acting, singing, and dancing to tell a story.

We tend to call these productions musicals, or sometimes Broadway musicals based on their
preeminent venue.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cheer, you'll sing; it's an artistic experience unlike any other.

Example: Miss Saigon starring Lea Salonga, Charot by PETA (Philippine Educational Theater
Association), Phantom of the Opera, Ang Huling El Bimbo

Fringe Theatre

 Form of theater that is experimental in style and narrative (people can freely perform
anything
 Frugal in nature (it doesn’t need a broadway or a grand theater, it can be done above the
pub or in the warehouse)
 Ex. Fringe Manila

“Fringe” means unconventional or not in the mainstream culture

It’s like a collection of unique performances such as mimes and street performances

Semi-formal type of theatre

Immersive Theatre

 most interesting and interactive form of theatre

 audiences play an active part in the performance, allowing them to play a role of a character
 Ex. Sleep No More, Tipsy Tales (Quezon City)

Audiences can roam around the performance space as the performance happens around them,
allowing them to decide what they see or what they skip

They might be herded from room to room so they see the key scenes.
It is like an interactive museum

Melodrama

 Form of theatre wherein plot, characters, dialogues are all exaggerated in order to appeal
directly to the audience’s emotions from the very beginning
 Orchestral music are often used to accompany scenes or to signify characters
 Sarswela – a type of melodrama, usually in three acts, that uses alternately spoken or sung
words.
 o Ex. Walang Sugat by Severino Reyes

Autobigraphicals

 Plays told from a first person perspective.

 It tells the life of a person, also called as “Theatre of the Self”
 It can be a solo-play or multi-character play
 Ex. Miong, a play about the life of Emilio “Miong” Aguinaldo