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 DRAMA
AND
THEATER
 Drama
Drama is taken from the word “dran” which
means to move or to act. It is a kind of story
composed in dialogue not to be read but to
watched because it is acted on stage.
 Theater
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of the
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.
 DRAMA AND THEATER
DRAMA THEATRE

Drama derived from the Theatre derived from the

Greek word “dran” meaning Greek word
to do or to act. “theasthai” means to
behold.
Drama is a printed text in a Theatre refers to the actual
play or script of a play. production of a play on the
stage.

There is a direct interaction There is no direct

between the reader and the interaction between the
actor. audience and the actor.
 Technical
Vocabulary
 PROMPT BOOK-
Compiled by the stage,
manager contains all the
pertinent information about
the show.
CALLBOARD- It is a
backstage bulletin board
where the announcement,
schedules and other
information is posted.
STAGE DIRECTIONS- It is an
instructions of the movements and
position of an actor in a stage.
 TECHNICAL REHEARSAL- It
is a rehearsal that
emphasizing the performance
of the production, it includes
changing or props and
costume, sounds and light and
scenery shifts.

DRESSING ROOM- It is a room

containing clothes and mirrors
where the actors change their
costume.
 PROPS AND
COSTUME- It enhances
the beauty of drama and
theatre

LIGHTING- It is used to
make a particular drama or
theatre and the
performance visible to the
audience.
 HAZER- It is a device that
creates a thin mist of fog
in a stage.

MUSIC AND SOUND-

Provides a high quality
source of music that makes
the more performance lively.
SCRIPT- It consists of dialogue
in a drama that automates the
execution of the performance
and instructions.
 ACTIVITY 1.
DIRECTION: Get familiar with
technical Vocabularies for Drama
and theatre. Name each picture
below. Write your answer on your
paper.
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 Stages Type
Acting Stages
Stage Directions
 Overview

• Different types of stages

• Acting Areas
• Stage Directions
 Types of Stages

• Proscenium Stage- a raised picture

frame stage.
Types of Stages

• Arena Stage (theatre

in the round)- a
stage on which the
action takes place in
the center of a circle
and the audience
suits around the
stage?
Types Of Stages
• Thrust Stage-
the
performance
area “thrusts”
out onto the
house and the
audience is on
the three
sides.
 Types Of Stages

• Black Box Theater- a large room painted black

with lights hanging from the beams on the ceiling-
audience space and playing space are flexible.
 Types Of Stage

• Traverse Stage- a stage theatre in which

the audience sits on either side of the
stage.
 Types Stages

• Flexible Staging- a play that is staged in a

place that cant be classified arena,
proscenium, thrust, black box or traverse.
The Proscenium Stage has
many parts
 Directors use nine areas to
give directions to the actors.
 Stage Directions Abbreviation
• X- to cross to another area of the stage.
• C or center stage -midway between front and
back, up and down, right, and left.
• Ds or Down Stage- the area closest to the
apron in the center of the stage.
• Up or Up Stage- the area closest to the back of
the stage in the center.
 Stage Directions
Abbreviations
• R or Stage right – in the center to the right of
the actor.
• L or stage left – in the center to the left of the
actor.
• Dr or down stage right – the area closest to
the audience to the right of the actor.
• DL or down stage Left – the area closest to
the audience to the left of the actor.
 Stage Directions
Abbreviations
• UR or Up stage Right – the area closest
to the back wall to the right of the actor.
• UL or Up stage Left- The area closest to
the back wall to the right of the actor.
Review the Abbreviations