Have you gone to a theater or watched on TV any form
of performing arts lately?
Was it a dance, a drama, or a music presentation?
Why do you think that those stage presentations
continue to create a kind of spell on its audience even in
this digital age?
Why is it good to expose yourself to theater or the
performing arts?

Do you go and see one just to relax or to be
entertained?
Don't you also learn something from watching
them?
Write as many words as you can that describe the
things that you can learn from watching performing
arts.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
a. understand the philippine and international theater
groups;
b. reflect on the importance of philippine and
international theater groups; and
c. show understanding about the philippine and
international theater groups.

What are the Philippine theater groups?
Hearing, seeing, and enjoying outstanding
performing talents-from drama and musical to
dance-can give anyone the thrill of a lifetime. That
exciting moment after the houselights are dimmed
and just before the curtain rises as you wait to
catch your first glimpse of the world behind the
footlights is unlike any other experience.

Theater productions are usually done by
professionals who are inspired and enthusiastic
about their work and who make their living on the
stage.
They cover all phases of theater-acting, staging,
production, methods, and directing-to bring on the
legitimate stage that the best actors play for each
season.

In the Philippines, the formation of several theater
groups is a fortunate development for people
interested in theater arts. Funded through a mix of
public (government) and private (individual) money,
some of these theater groups are the following:

1. Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)
In contrast with other theater groups, PETA is 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.

Founded in the late 1960s by Cecile Guidote, PETA
evolved as one of the most organized and
successful theater groups in the country.

2. Tanghalang Pilipino (TP)
Organized in 1987, Tanghalang Pilipino is another
leading exponent of Philippine theater.

2. Tanghalang Pilipino (TP)
Working under the umbrella of the Cultural Center
of the Philippines, TP is known for its production of
original Filipino plays, its effort to develop and train
Filipino actors, playwrights, and designers through
stage plays from Philippine past, and at times, plays
from other countries that were translated or
adapted to Filipino setting, is part of TP's mandate
to educate and awaken the cultural consciousness
of the Filipino audience.

Some of its productions are as
follows:Walang Sugat

Some of its productions are as follows:
Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Muzikal

Some of its productions are as follows:
Ibalong Muzikal

3. Repertory Philippines
Repertory Philippines Foundation, Inc. began in
1967 when two women, Zenaida Amador. and Baby
Barredo, dreamed of giving Filipinos a chance to
watch a world-class play, Miss Julie, in their own
country.

3. Repertory Philippines
Baby Barredo and Zenaida Amador, founders and artistic
directors of Repertory Philippines, are undoubtedly the
two great pillars of Philippine theater. Together, they built
Repertory Philippines with undying passion, dedication,
and persistence in the face of seemingly insurmountable
challenges and difficulties.

3. Repertory Philippines
They have contributed immeasurably to the world-
class quality of Repertory Philippines' productions
over its more than 45 years of existence in their
capacity as director, actress, costume and set
designer, and musical director.

3. Repertory Philippines
They shaped and honed the talents of generations
of Filipino actors and actresses who have
themselves attained recognition in their own right.

3. Repertory Philippines
Repertory Philippines has produced blockbuster
shows that include well- known musicals, such as
Les Misérables, Evita, Jack and the Beanstalk the
Musical, The Producers, Alice in Wonderland, and
many more.

4. New Voice Company (NVC)
Internationally acclaimed theater artist Monique
Wilson founded the New Voice Company (NVC) to
help expose Philippine audiences to an awareness
of the many social and political concerns in the
country through theater arts.

4. New Voice Company (NVC)
The company became famous when it produced
The Vagina Monologues abroad and in the
Philippines since 2001 to help change the laws on
sex trafficking and domestic violence in the country.

4. New Voice Company (NVC)
The company became famous when it produced
The Vagina Monologues abroad and in the
Philippines since 2001 to help change the laws on
sex trafficking and domestic violence in the country.

4. New Voice Company (NVC)
Today, NVC continues to be one of Asia's leading
theater companies producing diverse shows-from a
theatrical piece on the plight of street children to
activism, to revolution, and to nationhood. Its
production of The Male Voice, an innovative
musical exploring the roots of violence in Filipino
men, was its most recent contribution to Philippine
contemporary theater.

4. New Voice Company (NVC)
E.g. Monique Wilson in The King and I Musical
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=It0RAb_e83c

5. Trumpets
As Asia's first professional gospel theater group,
Trumpets is known for wholesome family
entertainment musicals such as The Little Mermaid,
Joseph the Dreamer, and The Blue Bird. Unlike
other English theater companies who get their
performing rights from Broadway materials,
Trumpets create new musicals for emerging Filipino
talents whose passion is to make their dreams of
performing for hundreds and thousands of people
come true.

5. Trumpets
E.g. The Blue Bird is Trumpets adaptation from a
musical play with books and lyrics by Jaime del
Mundo and music by Rony Fortich. It is about the
magical adventures of two children and their quest
for real happiness.

What are local performing groups?
In the Philippines, non-professional theater has also
helped keep the legitimate stage alive and strong.
With the commercial theater centered in Metro
Manila and few shows undertaking tours or closer
to home, theater lovers have found an outlet in the
local or little-theater movement. Here, small groups
of amateurs produce plays largely for the benefit of
small, congenial audiences.

What are local performing groups?
Many of these little theaters have grown into large-
scale community organizations. They draw their
acting and production personnel not from
professionals but from people in all walks of life and
reach large audiences with their production.
Perhaps someday you will belong to one.

What are local performing groups?
The school theater is an example of theater
regarded in the non-profession field.
E.g. Louisian Theater Ensemble

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
The realization that the Filipino has his or her own
world outside of the Western universe and that he
or she has so much to offer to its audience augurs
well for Philippine theater.

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
It may fluctuate in popularity, and the pleasures it
offers me be fulfilled at times by other activities,
but the theater in one form or another will always
be a part of Philippine society. The following are
some more of the bright developments in original
performance in the Philippines:

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
1. The rise in the number of original plays written
and produced by Filipino playwrights.

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
2. The increasing interest for participatory and
spontaneous theater that revolves around
economic and social concerns of communities. A
number of contemporary Filipino playwrights and
theater groups are now asserting the cultural
identity and rights of Filipinos as a people.

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
2. Social political issues such as social Injustice,
feminism, good governance an perspectives on how
the Filipino has changed his or her values and
culture symbols due to modernization,
industrialization, and commercialization have
become popular themes in many plays and other
stage productions.

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
3. The new trend on the utilization of new
technology in stage productions, featuring
spectacles-never-before-seen stage productions
characterized by animatronics, flamboyant sets, and
vibrant costume designs-that harmonize with
majestic state-of-the-art theaters.

What is the future of original performance in the
Philippines?
The Newport Performing Arts Theater and
Productions. Photos: Mango Tours

What are the roles in a theater production?
Play production offers many opportunities that you
may well find more stimulating and exciting than
acting. All the activities involved in the design and
construction of sets and costumes, the handling of
lighting equipment, and the managing of affairs
backstage and in the front are of absorbing interest
when a play gets underway.

Who is a director?
The key figure in theater production is the director.
His or her principal aim is to reproduce the
playwright's intentions as faithfully as he or she
can. The director must discover the values and
meanings of the play.

Who is a director?
Then he or she must work to bring out the story
through the actors, the choreographer, stage
manager, light and set designers, and other
resources at his or her disposal. Ideally, he or she
should be an excellent actor, scenic artist, and stage
"techie," able to handle technology. equipment,
and human beings with equal skill.

The director is the person upon whom the success
or failure of the production most largely depends.
He or she is responsible for the unification of all
production elements.
He or she must be able to delegate authority-to the
backstage crew for example, in order to be out
front during rehearsals and the performance. He or
she is also responsible for the morale of the people
in the production and must help them work
together for the success of the play.

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
1. Hearing, seeing, and enjoying outstanding
performing talents-from drama and musical to
dance-can give anyone the thrill of a lifetime.
a. Philippine Theater Groups
b. Philippine Music Groups
c. Philippine Arts Groups

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
2. In contrast with other theater groups, PETA is
more than a theater company; it is an innovative
theater group cultivating a modern perspective on
Philippine art and society.
a. Philippine Educational Theater Association
b. Philippine Association Theater Education
c. Philippine Theater Education Association

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
3. Some of TP's productions are as follows:
Walang Sugat, Zsazsa Zaturnnah Ze Muzikal and
Ibalong . TP is stands for?
a. Tanggalang Pilipino
b. Tanghalang Pilipino
c. Tanghalang Pilipinas

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
4. Began in 1967 when two women, Zenaida
Amador. and Baby Barredo, dreamed of giving
Filipinos a chance to watch a world-class play, Miss
Julie, in their own country.
a. Repertory Philippines
b. Repertory Philippines Foundation, Inc
c. Both a and b.

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
5. Internationally acclaimed theater artist Monique
Wilson founded the?
a. New Vice Company
b. New Voice Company
c. Both a and b.

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
6. As Asia's first professional gospel theater
group,_________ is known for wholesome family
entertainment musicals?
a. Trumpets
b. Trombone
c. Saxophone

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
7. In the Philippines, non-professional theater has
also helped keep the legitimate stage alive and
strong.
a. Local Performing Groups
b. Trumpets
c. Philippine Theater Groups

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
8. They are the key figure in theater production.
a. Director
b. Actor
c. None of the above.

Activity: Bring out 1/4 sheet of paper and answer
the following questions.
9-10). What is the importance of Philippine and
International Theater Groups ? Answer it in not
more than two sentences.