Intro Theatre PPT

1. WHAT IS THEATRE?
Or Theater if you will

2. The first theatre was around the
campfire.

3. Greek theatre

4. A plank and a passion

5. Todays theatres

6. The Greeks have a word for it
• Theatre comes from the Greek word theatron
or “seeing place”
• The term drama comes from the Greek
“dran”,to do.
• Drama is something done, an action.
• Theatre:something is seen; something is
done;an action is witnessed.

8. The Work of Theatre
• Producing
• Directing
• Acting
• Designing
• Building
• Crewing
• Stage managing
• Playwriting

9. Impersonation

10. The Greeks wore masks

11. Denis Diderot
• The Paradox of the actor
• We believe in the character
• We applaud the actor
• Willing suspension of disbelief

12. Performance
• Presentational

13. Representational performance
• The audience watches behavior that seems to
be staged as if no audience were present.

14. Live Performance
• Performers and audience interact.
• Each is fully aware of the others presence.
• Rapport between actors and audience
• Actors performance is effected by audience
reaction.
• The audience reacts to each other.
• Immediacy-happening now. Not on film.

15. Curtain Call