Theatre and Performance

Arts on Stage and on the

StreetsJosefino Tulabing Larena, AB, CPS,MPA

Learning Objective

Describe performance arts in the Philippine regions.

Identify the contemporary performance and theatre artists and determine their contribution to the development of performing arts.

Appreciate performance and theatre arts guided by the typology of forms

Plan a performance that conveys a message about a particular issue in a dramatic sense.

Theatre Production

1. Performance Arts

Performing arts may include dance,

music, opera, theatre and musical

theatre, magic, illusion, mime, spoken

word, puppetry,

circus arts, performance art,

recitation and public speaking. There

is also a specialized form of fine art, in

which the artists perform their work

live to an audience.

2. Theatre Arts.

Theatre or theater is a collaborative

form of 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.

Example : Performance Arts

Example : Theatre Arts

The elements of dramatic

theatrical performance 1. Plot

The main events of

a play, novel,

movie, or similar

work, devised and

presented by the

writer as an

interrelated

sequence.

2.Character -a

person in a novel,

play, or movie.

3. Thought -

the action or

process of

thinking.

4. Language or diction

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.

Language definition, 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

area

5.Song or Music –refers to the

speaking ,dancing and singing part in

the performance.

6.Spectacle-an event or scene

regarded in terms of its visual impact.

7. Director-a person who supervises

the actors, camera crew, and other

staff for a movie, play, television

program, or similar production

8.Playwright- A playwright, also

known as a dramatist, is a person who

writes plays.

9.Theater Space-(with a focus on

Proscenium,Thrust Stage, Theatre in

the Round, Black Box Theater)

The Four basic theatre stages

are the following: 1. Proscenium -The

Proscenium Arch was the most common form of theatre building in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The “Arch”• acts like a picture frame through which the action can be seen. The picture above shows the Proscenium Arch of the York Theatre Royal in the UK.

2. Arena or circle

stage- In theatre and

performing arts,

the stage is a

designated space for

the performance of ...

In theatre in the round,

the audience is located

on all four sides of

the stage.

3.Thrust Stage

a stage that

extends into the

auditorium so that

the audience is

seated around

three sides.

4. Created 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. In a similar manner, a makeshift stage can be created by modifying an environment.

Style in Philippine Theatre

Arts Theater, as the performing art that

consists of acting in front of an

audience, uses a combination of

gesture, music,dance, sound, speech

,or a narrative .Theater takes many

forms ,such as plays, musical,opera,

ballet or a combination of

contemporary forms.

According to Nicanor

Tiangson Most of the Original

plays of today were written for literary contests or evolved through workshops or created for semi-professional companies ,student drama organizations and numerous community theatre groups all over the country.

Outstanding directors who have

contributed to the development

of Modern Philippine Theater Lamberto Avellana y Vera was

born in Bontoc in the Mountain Province on 12 February 1915. He studied at Ateneo de Manila, where he learned about his passion and talent for the theaterarts. He became a teacher at Ateneo, and aspired to promote Filipino theater.

He met Daisy Hontiveros who acted in plays staged by the University of the Philippines. Hontiveros and Avellana formed a theater arts group called the Barangay Theater Guild, which has had members such as Leon Ma. Guerrero III and Raul Manglapus.

Founder of Repertory Philippines

Zenaida Amador

THE “MOTHER” of the country’s oldest theatergroup, Repertory Philippines, Zenaida“Bibot” Amador left behind a legacy of theaterexcellence and a “brood” of world-class stage artists when she died of lung cancer last Nov. 28.

Amador formed Repertory Philippines Foundation Inc. as president and artistic director in 1967, training theater hopefuls including Lea Salongaand Monique Wilson of Miss Saigon fame.

Antonio Mabesa Last September, Professor Emeritus

Antonio “Tony” Mabesa received this year’s Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, the highest award given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) every three years. This recent achievement, though, is just one of Prof. Mabesa’smany accomplishments in a career that spans more than six productive decades.

Prof. Mabesa is best known for his works in the theater and is widely considered one of the country’s finest directors, having directed some 170 productions. He is also a prolific actor, having acted in countless plays, films, and TV shows.

Behn Cervantes

Theater and film director and activist Benjamin “Behn” Cevantes

A renowned activist who was jailed during Martial Law alongside his friend, the late National Artist for Film LinoBrocka, Cervantes was a leading figure in Philippine theater, both as director and actor.

From the 1970s through the late 1980s, the mercurial Cervantes staged numerous political plays with the student actors of UP Repertory.

He was also acclaimed for directing the landmark political film “Sakada”.

Lutgardo Labad A native of Baclayon, Bohol, where

Cesar Montano and director Maryo,

are distinguished province-mates,

Labad was one of the original

members of PETA (Philippine

Educational Theater Association) in

the early ’70s where Brocka and actor-

director Cecile Guidote Alvarez were

two of the pioneers. “I started

composing for PETA in 1968 through

the prodding of Cecile (Guidote) who

inspired me to do creative music for

her theater works starting with

production of Crucible and her own

version of Larawan. It was at PETA

where I met Lino (Brocka) who was

then our publicity officer. He wanted

me to compose music for his movies. I

would say that it was in Tinimbang

where I got my first big break. It was

his first produced film and almost all of

PETA got involved. It was a very

exciting time for me.

Cecile (Guidote) Alvarez Cecile Guidote-

Alvarez (born November 13, 1943) founded the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA), a pioneering theater group that honed creative artists and audiences through children’s, college, and community theater. She was recognized as National Artist for Theater in 2009.

Soxy Topacio

Soxy has been also a Resident Artist of PETA since 1969, a Program director of KalinanganEnsemble from 1982-1986, PETA Executive Director from 1986-1994, a member of the Board of Trustees from 1995 to present, a member of AfredoSalanga Foundation Board of Trustees from 1990-1992, a member of the PETA Artistic Com from 2004-2006 and a membership committee from 2005 to present.

Joel Lamangan

In 2013, Lamanganwas named as the artistic director of Gantimpala Theater Foundation. Lamanganwill direct an original musical titled "Katipunan: Mga Anakng Bayan" and it will star actors Sandino Martin and Anna Fegi. The show toured in August and September of 2013 around provinces of Manila to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Philippine hero, Andres Bonifacio.

Baby Barredo

Ms Baby Barredo, one of the founders of Repertory Philippines, is better known in the theater community as “Tita Baby”. Being almost everyone’s “tita” really made this community one big happy family. And just like how in any family, the children grow up and start putting up their own families, most of the new theater companies that get built up are mostly alumni of Repertory Philippines

Joonee Gamboa

Filipino actor and

voice actor. As

veteran actor, he

appeared in more

than 145 movies

and television

shows.

Realism

The Filipino Playwrights adopted

realism as a style in theater

arts.Realism in the contemporary

modern theater follows two

tendencies: the psychological ,which

focuses on the problems of individuals

and the social,which situates and

roots individual problems within the

larger framework of a class society.

Psychological Realism

Outstanding psychological studies of

character are found in some English

plays

Wilfrido Maria Guerrero

Filipino playwright, director, teacher

and theater artist. Guerrero wrote well

over 100 plays, 41 of which have been

published. His unpublished plays have

either been broadcast over the radio

or staged in various parts of the

Philippines

Nick Joaquin

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Orlando Nadres

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Bienvenido Noriega Jr.

Tony Perez

sdre

Bobby Flores Villasis

Demigod

Elsa Victoria Martinez

Coscoluela

Social Realism

Social Realism is a

naturalistic realism focusing

specifically on social issues and the

hardships of everyday life. The term

usually refers to the urban American

Scene artists of the Depression era,

who were greatly influenced by the

Ashcan School of early 20th century

New York.

Alberto Florentino

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Reuel Molina Aguila

Paul Dumol

Chris Millado

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