Presentation Theatre

Rosa and I had to make a presentation about a subject of the book. We chose for theatre. Here is my part of our presentation: Theatre: Performances in which the spoken language is the most important is usually called theatre. Theatre is an appointment between the actors and the public. For example the actors are not the actors, but they are the characters in the play and the stage they are playing on is not just the stage, but the environment of the play. My mom once change herself to Sinterklaas in the middle of a class of little children and when she was done, the children really thought that she was Sinterklaas. In a good performance, you directly let yourself convince and you completely live with the misery from the actors. 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. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Modern Western theatre derives in large measure from ancient Greek drama, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre scholar Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing, and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature, and the arts in general. Theatre includes performances of plays and musicals. Although it can be defined broadly to include opera and ballet, those art forms are outside the scope of this article. Comedy Comedies are plays which are designed to be humorous. Comedies are often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters and strange circumstances. Certain comedies are geared toward different age groups. It usually about people like you and me, in a distinctive, credible story. If the characters are very exaggerated, we speak of a farce. Tragedy In a tragedy, there is no happy end for the main character. These plays often involve death and are designed to cause the reader or viewer to feel sadness. Tragic plays convey all emotions, and have extremely dramatic conflicts. Tragicomedy Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes throughout the play to lighten the mood. How the is story told in theatre A story in a play can be told in 3 ways: classic- or traditional construction, scenic construction and absurd construction. By a classic- or traditional construction the story is told in a chronologic way. The structure is as follows: expositions, in which you get all the needed information and you get to know all the characteristics. Motoric moment, in which the story starts by a specific event. The conflict becomes obvious. Development, in which there happens all kind of things which increase the tension. Climax, in which the development leads to the decisive climax, and then the end, the showdown; a happy end or a tragic end. The most movies and television programs have the same structure. By a scenic construction the story is not told in a chronologic way. All the parts are standing next to each other like independent episodes. There are several storylines that are not always related. By an absurd construction is no logical. There is no storyline at all in most of this plays. The end barely differs from the beginning. The spectators have to find a consistency by them self’s. This is a way of telling how absurd and meaningless life is. A plot is a short content of the play. Every play has also a meaning. A play shows the vision of the producer on the people and the world around them. A lot of producers choose for a certain way of acting and put with help of theatre stuff another accent to the existing story. Cabaret: Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance place: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies. Committed comedians are comedians who want to amuse, but they focus preferable on actual problems in the society and the politic. It is a cabaret with a message. Every comedian choose his own form, but in big lines there are 3 subgenres to distinguish. Text cabaret is a form of cabaret in which the comedian brings a varied program with sketches, songs and conversations with the public. He wants to break taboos. A special form of text cabaret is stand-up comedy. Stand-up comedians improvise a big part of the show. They provoke the public, they elicit reactions from the people from the public and respond directly. Physical cabaret is a form of cabaret in which the accent is on comic, acrobatic acts and they play with strange instruments and materials. In those kind of performances is speaking often not important. By musical cabaret are music, jokes on and with instruments, parodies of famous compositions or happy and sad songs the main elements. Comedians make almost always their own performance. Caricature is most important. They make persons or situations ridiculous by overact the characteristics or to reduce. Subjects to spot are preferable: people you know, like politicians or famous people, actual events which the people involved, the public, self-deprecation, taboos and boundaries. Sometimes a comedians works together with a producer. The producer views whether the texts have the right effects and whether the songs are varied. The comedian and producer make the show more fun by use of theatre recourses. During the try-out the comedian continues working on the show because he can only see if the texts is working by the reactions of his public. Without the interaction with the public, the program will not work. The comedian scandalized the public and looks for a victim which he regularly start a conversation with or who he ruthlessly mocks. Beginning comedians stars often in small halls where they discover what the people like by trial and terror.