Week 3 - Individual task

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

What is theatre? According to Wikipedia, 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. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek.

There are many type of theatre such as Cinema, drama, Opera and music theatre. For me, I think Cinema is one of theatre that using projectors to deliver message to the audience with the audio that came out from the cinema speaker. Audiences get the message that show on the cinema white screen and the movie shown on the white screen is controlled by computer devices.  Audio is standing an important part in the cinema. For example in the horror movie, people will get scary with the audio more than it’s visual.

Drama theatre is performed by actors on a stage and it is the formal and stylized use of costumes, makeup, scenery, lighting, music to deliver the message to the audience. The Costumes of the actors tell the character of each actor on performance. Lighting is one of the important parts on the stage because it can lead the audience to focus on the certain scene and action. Music generally includes both spoken dialogue and songs and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue.

Besides that, Musical theatre is a form of theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The story and emotional content of the piece are communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment to deliver the message to the audience. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements of the works.

For conclusion, theatre is one of the media that can entertain to the audience, carry out the communicate messages to the audience. So, we can say that theatre brings much advantage to human beings.