PERFORMANCE

AND THEATER
ARTS
In the Philippine Region
THEATER PRODUCTION
•1. Performance Arts
•2. Theater Arts
PERFORMANCE ARTS
• Performing Arts may include dance,
music, opera, theatre and musical
theatre, magic, illusion, mime,
spoken word, puppetry, circus arts,
recitation, and public speaking.
• Theartists perform their work live to
an audience.
THEATER ARTS
• Isa collaborative form of
fine art that uses live
performers, typically actor or
actresses, to present the
experience of a real or
imagined event before a live
audience in a specific place,
often a stage.
ELEMENTS OF DRAMATIC
THETRICAL PERFORMANCES
• Plot
• Character/Actors/Actresses
• Thought
• Language or Diction
• Song or Music
• Spectacle
• Director
• Playwright
• Theater Space
PLOT
•The main events of a play,
novel, movie, or similar
work, devised and presented
by the writer as an
interrelated sequence
CHARACTER/ACTORS/ACTRESSES
•A person in play portrays
a specific role
THOUGHT
•The main idea of
the play
LANGUAGE OR DICTION
• LANGUAGE- 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
• 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.
SONG OR MUSIC
•Refersto the
speaking, dancing and
singing part
SPECTACLE
•An event or scene
regarded in terms
of it’s visual impact
DIRECTOR
•A person who supervise the
actors, camera crew, and
other staff for a play and
production
PLAYWRIGHT
•A playwright,also
known as a dramatist, is
a person who writes
plays
THEATER SPACE
•The place/location
that the artist perform
their plays
The Four (4) basic theatre
stages
•Proscenium
•Arena or circle stage
•Thrust Stage
•Created and Found
PROSCENIUM
•Most common form of a theatre
building in the 18 , 19 , 20
th th th

centuries
•The “Arch” acts like a picture
frame through which the action
can be seen.
ARENA OR CIRCLE
STAGE
•In theatre and performing arts,
the stage is a designated space
for the performances. In theatre
in the round, the audience is
located on all four sides of the
stage.
THRUST STAGE
•A stage that extends
into the auditorium so
that the audience is
seated around three
sides
CREATE 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.