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    Theater is a collaborative art form that uses live performers to present experiences before a live audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art and stagecraft are used to enhance the experience. Types of theatrical plays include drama, musical theater, comedy, tragedy, and improvisation.

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    Theater

    It is a collaborative form
    of fine artthat uses live
    performers to present the
    experience of a real or
    imagined event before a
    live audience in a specific
    place, often a stage.

    The performers may


    communicate this
    experience to the audience
    through combinations of
    gesture, speech, song,
    music, and dance. Elements
    of art and stagecraft are
    used to enhance the
    physicality, presence and
    immediacy of the
    experience.

    The specific place of the


    performance is also
    named by the word
    "theatre" as derived from
    the Ancient Greek
    (thatron, "a place for
    viewing"), itself from
    (theomai, "to
    see", "to watch", "to

    Types of Theatrical
    Play

    1. Drama- is the specific


    modeof fiction
    represented
    In performance. The term
    comes from a Greek word
    meaning Action, which is
    derived from the verb "to
    do" or "to act".

    2. Musical Theater- musicand


    theatre have had a close
    relation-ship since ancient timesAthenian tragedy, for example,
    was a form of dance- dramathat
    employed a choruswhose parts
    were sung (to the
    accompaniment of an Aulos- an
    instrument comparable to the
    modernclari-net), as were some
    of the actors' responses and
    their 'solo songs' (monodies).

    3. Comedy- Theatre productions


    that use humoras a vehicle to
    tell a story qualify as comedies.
    This may include a modern
    farcesuch as Boeing Boeingor a
    classical play such as As you like
    it. Theatre expressing bleak,
    controversial or taboo subject
    matter in a deliberately
    humorous way is referred to as
    black comedy. Black Comedy can
    have several genres like
    slapstick humor, dark and

    4. Tragedy- is a form of
    drama based on human
    sufferingsthat invokes
    an accompanying
    catharsis
    or pleasure in
    audiences.

    5. Improvisation- often called


    improvorimpro, is a form of
    theater where most or all of
    what is performed is created
    at the moment it is performed.
    In its purest form, the
    dialogue, action, story, and
    characters are created
    collaboratively by the players
    as the improvisation unfolds in
    present time, without use of
    an already prepared, written

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