- collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually 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 performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of
gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.

- Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the
physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience.

- The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theater".

- Theater reminds us that we are not alone.

- Theater promotes education and literacy.
- Theater is immediate, evolving and always different. Live theater helps to promote social
discourse,dialogue and potential social change.
- Theater helps us to see a different perspective from our own.

- LITERARY ELEMENTS
- TECHNICAL ELEMENTS
- PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS

(PLOT, CHARACTERS,STORY ORGANIZATION, CONFLICT, THEME, LANGUAGE)

PLOT (Rising Action > Exposition > Climax > Falling Action >Resolution)
- the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as
an interrelated sequence.

CHARACTERS
-the people portrayed in a drama, novel or other artistic piece.

STORY ORGANIZATION
-is the beginning, middle and ending of the play.

CONFLICT
-the internal or external struggles between opposing forces, ideas, interests or dramatic tension.

THEME
- the basic idea of a play; the idea, point of view or perception that binds together the work of art.

LANGUAGE
-Particular manner of verbal expression, diction, or style of writing.
(SCENERY, COSTUMES, PROPS, LIGHTS, SOUND, MAKE-UP)

SCENERY
- theatrical equipment (curtains, backdrops or platforms) used in ad dramatic production to
communicate environment.

COSTUMES
the clothing and accessories worn by the actors to portray character and period.

PROPS(Properties)
- any moveable object that appears on stage during a performance aside from the scenery and
costumes; it is used as a part of a dramatic production.

LIGHTS
-the placement, intensity and color of lights help communicate environment, mood and feeling.

SOUNDS
-effects an audience hears during a performance to communicate character, context and
environment.

MAKE-UP
-includes wigs, and body paint to transform an actor into a character.

(ACTING, CHARACTER MOTIVATION, CHARACTER ANALYSIS, EMPATHY, NON-VERBAL EXPRESSION)

ACTING
-the use of face, body and voice to portray a character.

CHARACTER MOTIVATION
-the reason or reasons for a character's behavior; an incentive or inducement for further action for
a character.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS
-in responding to dramatic art, the process of examining how the elements of drama — literary,
technical and performance are used.

EMPATHY
- is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of
view, and imagine yourself in their place.

NON-VERBAL EXPRESSION
-gestures, body alignment, facial expressions, character blocking, movement.