MAPEH QUARTER IV

Philippines Festival and Theatrical Forms

THEATRICAL
FORMS
COMEDIA OR
MORO-MORO
 COMEDIA OR MORO-MORO

• Created by Spanish priests

• Love-affair between a
Muslim-Filipino prince and a Christian
princess
• Religious differences
• Costumes=Gaudy and loud
colored costumes
SARSWELA
(ZARZUELA)
• A play w/ a songs and dances depicting
the SARSWELA (ZARZUELA)
peculiarity of romantic love accompanied
by
contemporary social, political, economic
or
cultural issues.
• Originated from Spanish form of musical
theatre.
• Song and speech
SENAKULO
 SENAKULO
• 8 days to be performed
from palm sunday to easter
Sunday
• On the streets, on stage, in a
chapel or church.
 SENAKULO
• It is a theatre play that happens
every holy week.
• depicting stories and events from
the Old & New Testaments related
to the sufferings and death of
Jesus Christ.