Grade 10

Lesson 1: Philippine Theater and Performing Groups

 Learning Competencies:
 explains how an idea or theme is communicated in a
selected performance through the integration of musical
sounds, songs, dialogue and dance (A10ELIVb-4)
 analyzes examples of plays based on theatrical forms, and
elements of art as applied to performance (A10ELIVa-2)
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
A major art form that
A. Architecture
brings together all the
other art form.
B. Cinema

C. Literature

D. Theater
 The resident theater
A. New Voice Company
company of the Cultural
Center of the
B. Repertory Philippines
Philippines.
C. PETA

D. Tanghalang Pilipino
Theater association
A. PETA
founded by Cecile
Guidote – Alvarez in
B. Repertory Philippines
1967.
C. Theater Down South

D. Trumpets
 A theater company that
A. PETA
staged English language
plays and musicals and
B. Repertory Philippines
trained actors and
actress.
C. Theater Down South

D. Trumpets
She put the Philippines
A. Anne Curtis
on the world map of
theater after having the
B. Cherrie Gil
lead role
of Kim in Miss Saigon.
C. Lea Salonga

D. Joanna Ampil
Guess the item by arranging the jumbled
letters as clues.
1.Have you been to theater or have you
experienced theater?
2.How is/was your experience in theater?
3.What are the major elements of theater?
Lesson 1: Philippine Theater and Performing Groups
The Philippine Theater and Performing Arts Philippine has
a rich and thriving theater industry that you may be
venture into the future. Production range from original
plays with Philippine themes and settings to renowned
theater classics from past centuries to contemporary
musicals from Broadway or London’s West End.
Theater is a major art form that brings together all the
other art forms from painting and sculpture to installation
art to music and dance to literature and even computer art
in a single production.
 A story is acted out on stage by actors
portraying the characters, bringing them to life
and developing the plot through dialogue and
actions, and sometimes through song or dance.
Philippine
Educational
Theater
Association
 Founded by Cecille Guidote – Alvarez in 1967, with the
vision of a Philippine Theater engaged in the
development of people and society.
 The company use the power of theater as a means of
producing plays for empowerment and development,
especially of the most disadvantaged sectors of
society/those in the margins.
• CAREDIVAS is a disarmingly
funny and candid musical
drama about five transgender
Overseas Filipino Workers in
Israel who work as care givers
in the morning and transform
into glamorous drag queen
performers at night. While
desperate to make ends meet,
they also struggle to search for
acceptance in a foreign land.
• “Haring Lear” is about an
elderly king who, wanting to
retire from power, decides to
divide his kingdom among his
three daughters. Goneril and
Regan both proclaim their
love in highly flattering terms,
while Cordelia chooses to
speak more honestly and is
disinherited.
• "Pamana" tells the
story of a typical low
middle-class Filipino
family. Lola Azon is a
retired Metro Aide
street sweeper during
the Martial Law time
and a big admirer of
her namesake, Pres.
Corazon Aquino.
 Tanghalang Pilipino
the resident theater company of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines and founded in 1987.
develop and train actors, playwrights, and designers with
special emphasis on the production of original Filipino
plays.
staging plays from the repertoire of Philippine past and
plays in translation from other countries. Caredivas, PETA
2011 Pamana, PETA 2013 Haring Lear, PETA 2012
tanghalang Pilipino bring the experience of both artists and
audience the best of Philippine and global theatre tradition.
• Himala (English: Miracl
e) is a 1982 Filipino film
directed by 
Ishmael Bernal and
produced by the 
Experimental Cinema of
the Philippines
. It stars Nora Aunor as
a young woman living in
the province who claims
to have seen a 
Marian apparition.
 A Filipino translation of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the play re-examines the life of a
Roman soldier admired for his valor and military supremacy but disdained for his arrogance
and pride, a testament to Shakespeare's complex characters. Although one of Shakepeare's
lesser-known plays, the narrative proves timely for today's political landscape.
• "Ibalong" tells the story of a
league of warriors, led by
Handyong, who arrive in Bicol
(formerly Ibalon), where these
men face vicious attacks from
beasts and monsters -- a
cyclops, winged sharks, wild
carabaos, and snakes.
 Learning Task 2:
Match It Up: Match Column A with Column B

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1.Caredivas a.2004
2.Himala b. 2011
3. Haring Lear c. 2012
4. Pamana d. 2013
5. Ibalong e. 2014
6. Noli
7. William
1.What is the active theater group in the Philippines
specializing original plays written in Filipino?
2.What is the main purpose of Tanghalang Filipino?
3.Which of the theater discussed earlier captivates
you and why?
Direction: Identify the following
items. Writer your answer on your
paper.
 It is a disarmingly funny and candid
musical drama about five transgender
Overseas Filipino Workers in Israel who
work as care givers in the morning and
transform into glamorous drag queen
performers at night.
 It stars Nora Aunor as a young woman
living in the province who claims to have
seen a Marian apparition.
The musical tells the story of Handyong
and his warriors who come to Bicol
Tells the story of a typical low middle-class
Filipino family.
A majestic and sophisticated incarnation of
one of Shakespeare's most enduring
tapestries of family portraits embroiled
within political power struggles fueled by
passion, betrayal and deception