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Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.

History of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While per formative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment and theatrical or per formative elements in other activities.

Greek theatre

Roman theatre

Transition and early Medieval theatre, 500–1050

High and late Medieval theatre, 1050–1500

Commedia dell'arte

Golden age theatre

Renaissance theatre

Restoration comedy

Restoration spectacular

Neoclassical theatre

Nineteenth-century theatre

Twentieth-century theatre

Greek theatre, most developed in Athens, is the root of the Western tradition; theatre is in origin a Greek word. It was part of a broader culture of theatricality and performance in classical Greece that included festivals, religious rituals, politics, law, athletics and gymnastics, music, poetry, weddings, funerals, and symposia.

ROMAN THEATRE

The theatre of ancient Rome was a thriving and diverse art form, ranging from festival performances of street theatre, nude dancing, and acrobatics, to the staging of Plautus's broadly appealing situation comedies, to the high-style, verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca.

Indian theatre

Sanskrit theatre

Kathakali

Modern Indian theatre

Shang theatre

Han and Tang theatre

Song and Yuan theatre

During the 333-year reign of the Spanish government, the introduced into the islands the Catholic religion and the Spanish way of life, which gradually merged with the indigenous culture to form the “lowland folk culture” now shared by the major ethno linguistic groups. Today, the dramatic forms introduced or influenced by Spain continue to live in rural areas all over the archipelago. These forms include the komedya, the playlets, the sinakulo, the sarswela, and the drama. In recent years, some of these forms have been revitalized to make them more responsive to the conditions and needs of a developing nation.

In Thailand, it has been a tradition from the Middle Ages to stage plays based on plots drawn from Indian epics. In particular, the theatrical version of Thailand's national epic Ramakien, a version of the Indian Ramayana, remains popular in Thailand even today.

Noh

Bunraku

Kabuki

Butoh

The most popular forms of theatre in the medieval Islamic world were puppet theatre (which included hand puppets, shadow plays and marionette productions) and live passion plays known as ta'ziya, in which actors re-enact episodes from Muslim history. In particular, Shia Islamic plays revolved around the shaheed(martyrdom) of Ali's sons Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali. Secular plays known as akhraja were recorded in medieval adab literature, though they were less common than puppetry and ta'ziya theatre.

Puppet Shows

Mime

Musical Theatre

Drama

Comedy

Tragedy

Improvisation

Fantasy

Action

Arena :

A theatre in which the audience completely surrounds the stage or playing area. Actor entrances to the playing area are provided through vomitories or gaps in the seating arrangement.

Thrust :

A theatre in which the stage is extended so that the audience surrounds it on three sides. The thrust stage may be backed by an enclosed proscenium stage, providing a place for background scenery, but audience views into the proscenium opening are usually limited. Actor entrances are usually provided to the front of the thrust through vomitories or gaps in the seating.

End stage

A theatre in which the audience seating and stage occupy the same architectural space, with the stage at one end and the audience seated in front facing the stage.

Flexible theatres:

Flexible theatre is a generic term for a theatre in which the playing space and audience seating can be configured as desired for each production. Often, the theatre can be configured into the arena, thrust, and end stage forms described above. Environmental, promenade, black box, and studio theatre are other terms for this type of space, suggesting particular features or qualities.

Environmental theatre :

A found space in which the architecture of the space is intrinsic to the performance, or a theatre space that is transformed into a complete environment for the performance.

Promenade theatre:

A theatre without fixed seating in the main part of the auditorium – this allows the standing audience to intermingle with the performance and to follow the focal point of the action to different parts of the room. Multiple-focus action and a moving audience are the primary characteristics of the promenade theatre.

Black box theatre:

A flexible theatre usually without character or embellishment—a “void” space that may indeed be black, but isn’t always. Usually, audience seating is on the main floor, with no audience galleries, though a technical gallery may be provided.

Studio theatre:

A flexible theatre with one or more audience galleries on three or four sides of a rectangular room. The main floor can usually be reconfigured into arena, thrust, endstage, and flat floor configurations. The room usually has some architectural character.

Courtyard theatre:

The term courtyard theatre embraces a range of theatre forms, all with the common characteristic of at least one raised seating gallery surrounding a central area. Often this central area is flexible, and can be configured into arena, thrust, end stage, and flat floor configurations. Sometimes the central area has fixed seating that faces a proscenium opening and stage.

Proscenium theatre:

In a proscenium theatre, the stage is located at one end of the auditorium and is physically separated from the audience space by a proscenium wall.

Thrust and open stage:

Some larger drama theatres take the form of a thrust stage, with the audience surrounding three sides of the performance platform.

Recital hall:

A space designed for soloists and small ensembles (up to chamber orchestra size), with a seat count typically in the range of 150 to 800.

Shoebox concert hall:

The classic concert hall form is the shoebox, named after the rectangular shape and approximate proportions of a tennis-shoe box. The shoebox form has high volume, limited width, and multiple audience levels, usually with relatively narrow side seating ledges.

Vineyard concert hall, surround hall:

Some modern concert halls have audience seating in terraces reminiscent of a vineyard. The seating may completely or partially encircle the concert platform. An important early example of the vineyard form is the Berlin Philharmonic.

Opera house:

An opera house is a proscenium theatre in form. Seat count ranges from 1,200 to 2,000 with an upper limit of about 2,400 seats. The auditorium is almost always multilevel with side tiers or boxes to enhance visual and aural intimacy.

Dance theatres:

The design of the auditorium emphasizes frontal sightlines and a clear view of the stage floor. Sometimes the seating is on telescopic risers that can be retracted to allow the whole space to be used for rehearsal or instruction.

Multipurpose theatre:

The contemporary multipurpose theatre is commonly found in medium to large US cities and occasionally elsewhere around the world. These proscenium theatres are designed to accommodate a range of activity—symphonic music, opera, musical theatre, ballet, and touring productions.

Multiuse commercial theatre - a “Broadway theatre” form:

This is a proscenium theatre designed primarily for amplified sound. The room acoustics are usually “dry” with little adjustment available, making these rooms unsuitable for un-amplified acoustic music.

Showroom:

The term showroom usually implies an entertainment venue connected with a casino, hotel, or resort. A showroom may be designed to accommodate variety or headliner acts, or it may be purpose-built for a specific production, such as a circus show.

Performance

Audience

Director

Theatre Space

Design Aspects

Text

PerformersPeople onstage presenting characters in dramatic action.

AudienceThe essence of theater is the interaction between the performer and audience, Theater needs to be experienced live.

DirectorThe director makes certain that the performers understand the text and deliver the script excitingly and appropriately.

Theater SpaceAnother necessary element of theater is the space in which performers or audiences come together.

TextA final element essential to theater is the text that is performed, and it must be present for theater to occur.

Background

Highlight and shadow

Makeup and lighting

Light's effect on makeup

Straight makeup

Training/Education

We are advanced tool builders. The dexterity of our hands, the stereoscopic vision we enjoy, all evolved from our tree-climbing ancestors, has given us the means to develop a highly technical society. That’s why we are a dominant species in terms of our ability to alter the environment.

Script which tells the main idea of the story.

Although pictures are worth a thousand words, they seldom give us a good idea of the full story behind them.

Today video tell whole the imagine.

In theatre real acting tells your emotion which catching people feeling through gestures, posture, body movements , face expressions etc.

Emotion ,Confidence, Gesture, Posture, Felling.

Greek festival : Peoples can act like dancing, acting from their gestures, posture, in natural(reality) life to the audience. It’s an arts.

Olympic games: In games it’s show feeling, passion, emotion & teach honesty, tolerance, dignity, give moral values its also part of theatre for example WWE is a drama theatre it is already totally plan game.

Ship battles: To fight with someone to show power to beat evil(enemy) it fantasy or action theatre.

Bull fitting: In this game its tell not only people’s feeling who ply but also emotion people who watching the game if someone injured or died in reality(live).

Football: This game is totally plan like cricket match fixing it’s an full of drama game.

Romans civilization: To rule someone you made law’s you can write law how to rule in anywhere you may know what type of audience(people) how to handle them in theatre script is important .

Gladiator: It’s a fighting game fight live to the audience no one know when died its also a part of theatre.

Every one is an actor living in this world. The different people in this world have different character’s which show there personality we know them from there unique character & world is a theatre. We can acting every day when meet with different people.