• Horace, in his Ars Poetica, defined it as two-fold:

profit and pleasure. In today’s language, it

translates to education and entertainment.
• Bertolt Brecht, a German playwright: The primary
function of theatre is to effect change in the
audience.
• For others, it is to entertain. Like musicals,
comedies full of bellyache laughter, revues, and
variety shows.
• Some question whether the theater is the rightful
platform for the propaganda, discussion of issues
of the moment, for living newspaper, and political
dogma.
• Drama is the script of • Theater is the
a play onstage production
of a play.
• There is direct
• There is no direct
interaction between
• Both has a story to interaction between
the reader and
be told. audience and the
dramatist
dramatist.
• Interpretation of the
• Interpretation of the
play depends on the
play depends on the
reader
artists.
• Drama is an abstract • Theater is an physical
entity. entity.
Is a dramatic arts, an art
concerned almost exclusively
with live performances. It is an
actual realization of the script
or can be called the
verbalization/visualization of
drama.
• Drama is a play written to be
performed by actors, the writing
of plays, or
the art of showing plays.
• Severino Reyes, also known as
“Ama ng Dulang Pilipino” or
“Father of Philippine Drama”.
1. Tragedy – a drama which usually rotates around the ruination of
the dynasty, the downfall of man, emotional betrayals, moral
setback, personal loss, death, and denials.
2. Melodrama – it refers to a story that ends happily, with the
protagonist defeating the antagonist at the last possible
moment.
3. Comedy – a work intended to interest, involve, and amuse
the reader or audience, in which no terrible disaster occurs
and that ends happily for the main characters.
4. Farce – is a comic dramatic piece
that uses highly improbable
situations, stereotyped characters,
extravagant exaggeration, and violent
horseplay.
5. Fantasy – a completely
fictional work where
characters virtually display
supernatural skills.
6. Musical – music, melody, and dance play a significant role in
a musical drama. The music should be in sync with the actions
and the performer often uses dance as a means of self-
expression.
7. Tragicomedy – a literary genre that blends
aspects of both tragic and comic forms.