Task 1

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. There are few types of theatre, drama, musical theatre, opera, comedy, tragedy.

The theatre is a created thing, and its very creation determines what it is and what it does. We create the theatre in such way to express meaning, feeling, and spirit so that the audience member will have an opportunity to experience what we want them to experience. For instance, we may want the audience to experience what it is like to live in a cardboard box in an alley in order to get them to feel and understand urban problems. At the same time, we may wan to affirm the worth of persons. A person living in a cardboard box has worth.

Theatre is a type of media form which can bring message to the audience. Theatre is more effective if use as media form because it  is like a story telling to recall the story and easy to memorize. The writer has to be more creative and think of way to set the characters’ emotion. Refer to Wikipedia, theatre has involves the audiences in variety of ways.  

Theatre is a performing art of the production. Acting, directing, design, construction, running crew like musicians, singers, dancers. We can increase aesthetic and technical appreciation for the individual arts going into make theatre and for different styles and periods of theatre.

Theatre is a major form of entertainment. Holds audience’s attention-the primary form of public entertainment until the advent of radio and movies. Theatre is a fun, is a play for the soul, for the mind, for the body. All work and no plays would be boring.