LESSON 3: REPRESENTATIVE THEATRICAL FORMS

PHILIPPINE THEATER
- Comes in a variety of forms, and these include religous and non-religous acts of productions.
SHADOW PUPPETRY
- an ancient art form that uses flat, expressed figures to produce cut-out figures which are held
together by sticks and sometimes thread to create movement
- also called as SHADOW PLAY
DRAMA
- Actors act out scenes through a complex gestures language.
- Art form or dance movement where the performers depict different emotions.
MORO MORO
- created by Spanish preists. it is unique to the Philippines because there are no other countries that
thought of or created the said drama.
- A folk dance drama that symbolizes war between the Christians and Muslims.
- Originated in times of SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD
ZARZUELA
- a play with song and dances usually written in prose, depicting the peculiarity of romantic love
among idealized Filipino characters.
- Performers wear BARONG TAGALOG for boys and FILIPIŃANA for girls.
SENAKULO
- depicting stories and events from the Old and New Testaments related to the life sufferings and
death of Jesus Christ.
- Is an enactment on how the ROMANS mistreated Jesus Christ.
- takes at least EIGHT DAYS to be performed from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday.