ART's CLASS
PHILIPPINE
THEATER
GROUPS
Lesson Objectives:
 Explain how an idea or theme is communicated in a selected
performance through the integration of musical sounds, songs,
dialogue and dance;
 Analyze examples of plays based on theatrical forms, and elements
of arts as applied to performance; and
 Illustrate how the different elements are used to communicate the
meaning.
What is Theatre?
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.
The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through
combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.
Elements of arts, such as painted scenery and stage craft such as lighting are
used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience.
What are the Philippine
Theater/Performing Groups?
1. Philippine Educational Theater Association
(PETA)
2. Tanghalang Pilipino (TP)
3. Repertory Philippines
4. New Voice Company (NVC)
5. Trumpets
PETA-Philippine Educational Theater Association
-more than a theater company; it is an innovative theater
group cultivating a modern perspective on Philippine art
and society.
- It moves toward issue-based theater and helps bring
about social and political awareness and change through
its programs, performances, and workshops.
Cecile Guidote-Alvarez founded the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) on April 7, 1967 with the
vision of a Philippine Theater engaged in the development of people and society.
Caredivas PETA, 2011
Haring Lear PETA, 2012
Pamana PETA, 2013
CAREDIVAS
CAREDIVAS is a disarmingly funny and candid musical drama about five
transgender Overseas Filipino Workers in Israel who work as care givers
in the morning and transform into glamorous drag queen performers at
night. While desperate to make ends meet, they also struggle to search
for acceptance in a foreign land.
Tanghalang Pilipino
Organized in 1987
Working under the umbrella of the Cultural Center of the Philippines and
known for its production of original Filipino plays.
Its mandate is to educate and awaken the cultural consciousness of the
Filipino audience.
Ibalong Tanghalang Pilipino, 2012
Noli Tanghalang Pilipino,
2011
William
Tanghalang Pilipino, 2011
Ibalong Tanghalang Pilipino, 2012
"Ibalong" tells the story of a league of warriors, led by Handyong,
who arrive in Bicol (formerly Ibalon), where these men face
vicious attacks from beasts and monsters -- a cyclops, winged
sharks, wild carabaos, and snakes.
Repertory Philippines
Began in 1967 when Zenaida Amador and Baby Barredo dreamed
of giving Filipinos a chance to watch a world-class play. They two
great pillars of Philippine theater.
Produced blockbuster shows that include well-known musicals,
such as Les Miserables, Evita, Jack and the Beanstalk the Musical,
The Producers, Alice in Wonderland , and many more...
Multi awarded theater actress and singer, Lea Salonga, in
fact, began her career as a child lead in productions of
Repertory Philippines. From there, she went on to become an
international stage superstar in the lead role of Kim in Miss
Saigon – putting the Philippines on the world map in terms
of theater talent.
Also among Repertory’s many notable achievements was the 1993
staging of the international hit musical Les Miserables in Manila
with an all-Filipino cast and production team.
Repertory Philippines’ founder, Zenaida Amador,
with Les Miserables composer Claude Michel Schonberg
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino – Phil
Repertory 2001
Little Women – Repertory
Philippines 2010
In its 2009 season, Repertory added a Filipino classic in English to its
productions – A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, by National Artist Nick
Joaquin. To date, it continues to offer a mix of productions ranging from
literary classics to contemporary satires, comedies, and musicals.
Trumpets
Asia’s first professional gospel theater group.
Known for wholesome family entertainment musicals.
The Little Mermaid, Joseph the Dreamer, Blue Bird are some of
its musicals.
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Trumpets, 1997
The Bluebird of Happiness
Trumpets, 2013
New Voice Company (NVC)
Internationally acclaimed theater artist Monique Wilson founded the
New Voice Company to help expose Philippine audiences to an
awareness of the many social and political concerns in the country
through theater arts.
Aspects of Love , 2006
The Male Voice New Voice Company, 2009
My Name is Rachel Corrie
New Voice Company, 2010
There are four theatrical forms:
Comedy
Tragedy
Drama
Melodrama
1. Comedy is an entertainment consisting of jokes intended to make an
audience laugh.
It is a form of dramatic construction enlists and rates mounting
happening of the world with a humorous player or even eccentric flavors.
There are different types of comedy these are :
• Comedy of manners
• Romantic Comedy
• Black Comedy/Dark Comedy
• Comedy of Humors
• Tragic Comedy
Comedy of Manner- the plays are satire/exaggerated they
poke fun at society, especially the upper class.
Lust, greed, materialistic nature of people, gossip and
rumours, hypocritical nature and false pretensions of the
people were common subjects of the comedy of manners.
Romantic Comedy- centers around the theme of love and this usually
has a happy ending two characters meet and begin a love affair but
misunderstandings and other impediments get in the way that is merely
metaphysical speculation and as with most metaphysical speculations
they have very little reference to the actual facts of life as we know them.
Black Comedy /Dark Comedy- The topic in this type of comedy are
distressing to people such as death illness and other taboo topics
Comedy of Humor- The
comedy of humors is a
character-based story in this
type of comedy the characters
have one or two dominant
traits such as jealousy ,greed
or vanity that through their
interactions with each other .
Tragic Comedy- mixes humor
and tragedy together in
surprising ways most tragic
comedies feature surprise
endings and almost all
endings are happy.
2.Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering and
,mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall the main
character.
Six elements of tragedy theatrical :
1. Plot
2. Character
3. Diction
4. Thought
5. Spectacle ( scenic effect)
6. Song ( Music)
On the picture is Les Misérables staged by Repertory
Philippines this play is one perfect example of tragedy .
It is a classic tale of crime and punishment injustice and
redemption
3.Drama- is a prose or poetical composition presenting a story
of human life through the performance of actors and
actresses.
Six elements of Drama:
1. Plot
2. Theme
3. Characters
4. Dialogue
5. Music/Rhythm and sound
6. Spectacle
Himala is and excerpt from a
stage play himala by Tanhalang
Pilipino in 2004 .
“Himala” tells the story of
Cupang , a rural barrio in barren
landscape cursed with drought. A
glimmer of hope appears in Elsa,
a young girl who claims to have
the power to heal after seeing a
vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
4.Melodrama- is a work with exaggerated, sensational events and
characters. It is highly emotional, focusing on exciting but over-thetop situations that are designed to encourage emotional responses in
the audience.
Elements of Melodrama:
1. Music
2. Morally polarized characters/Good Guys vs. Bad guys.
3. Heroine/ Damsel in distress who must be save by the hero.
4. Happy Ending/Good has to win over bad.
Below is an excerpt performance of snow white staged by Repertory
Philippines.
There are artistic elements that are applied to these theater forms.
1. Gesture, movement and dance.
This includes incorporating appropriate movement and dance styles needed in the play.
Example:
 Hand over mouth
 Handshake
 Salute
 Pointing
 Tapping fingers
Seeing their body movements and facial expressions , however ,communicate everything to
us .Perhaps the most important tool of expression in any actor’s is their physicality, the use
of their bodies in movement.
Charot by PETA -is an original musical that aims to present the realities of the Philippines
society in a political satire.
2. Spectacles-this refer to the visual elements of the play.
 Sets
 Costumes
 Special effects
It is everything that the audience sees as they watch the play.
The Lion The Witch and The wardrobe
performed by the Trumpets
3.Music and sound-in this elements sound, recording, and editing techniques are
incorporated.
Utilizing various music and sound effects at a specific moment can heighten the mood and
enrich the atmosphere.
Ibalong by Tanghalang Pilipino
4.Costume,Make up, and Accessories- incorporate art techniques such as painting ,paper
Mache, assemblage, simple sculpture, and industrial design.
The Secret Garden by
Repertory Philippines
Values Integration
Whoever neglects the arts when
he is young has lost the past and
is dead to the future.
-Sophocles