STAGE PLAY

Stage play-a play performed an stage rather than broadcast or made into a movie.

Theater ,Theatre

• A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works or plays are

performed, or other performances such as musical concert may be produced. Stage
(Theatre)

• In theatre and performing arts, the stage (sometimes referred to as the deck in
stagecraft) is a designated space for the performance of productions.

• The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point (the screen in
cinema theater) for the members of the audience. As an architectural feature, the stage
may consist of a platform (often raised) or series of platforms.

Types of Theatres:

• Arena: The playing area is in the center of a large open space which usually seats thousands of
people.

• Proscenium: The audience directly faces the playing area which is separated by a portal called
the proscenium arch.

• Thrust: The playing area protrudes out into the house with the audience seating on 3 sides.

• Theatre in the round: The playing area is surrounded by audience seating on all sides.

• Traverse: The elongated playing area is surrounded by audience seating on two sides.
 Different Types Of Theatre Productions
Musical

• Musicals are plays that are performed in completely in song and dance form.

Fringe Theatre

• Fringe theatre is a form of theatre that is experimental in its style and narrative.

Immersive Theatre

• Immersive theatre is perhaps the most interesting and interactive form of theatre there
is today.

• Unlike conventional forms of theatre, where the line of communication is just one way
i.e. performers to audience, in an immersive theatre, the audience too plays an active
part in the performance, in however small a way it may be.

• The play may be staged in a dilapidated building; it may be set up as a treasure hunt
across town or may even usher the audience from room to room.

Melodrama

• Melodrama is a form of theatre wherein the plot, characters, dialogues are all
exaggerated in order to appeal directly to the audience’s emotions from the very
beginning.

• Orchestral music or songs are often used to accompany the scenes or to signify specific
characters.

Autobiographical

• Autobiographical plays are, as the name suggests, plays told from a first person
perspective.

• The lead walks (or talks, for that matter) the audience through his life and its many
moments.
Comedy

• Now, don’t we all know what a comedy play is! Comedy plays could cover various
themes spanning satire, malapropisms, characterizations, black comedy and so on.

• Shakespearean plays explain that if a play has a happy ending then it’s a comedy, but
over the years, comedy has come to denote so many other things – one of them being
conveying a social message to the audience in a more palatable format.

Tragedy

• Tragedy play is based on human suffering and emotionally painful events.

Historic Plays

• These plays are based on a historical narrative – they are either an enactment of a
historical event or personality, or an adaptation of the same.

Farce

• Farce is a variation of comedy, wherein the play uses absurd and exaggerated events in
the plot.

Solo Theatre

• Again, like the name suggests, solo theatre is led by only one actor. These plays could be
anything, from comic acts to theatrical representations of poetries and stories.

Epic

• An epic is often mixed up with a tragedy play, although both are completely different
concepts.

• In an epic, the focus is less on making the audience identify with the characters on stage
and more on bringing out the connection with the setting of the stage.

Stage types:
• Proscenium stage:

• A proscenium theatre is what we usually think of as a "theatre".

• Thrust theatre:
• A Stage surrounded by audience on three sides. The Fourth side serves as the
background.

• End Stage:

• A Thrust stage extended wall to wall, like a thrust stage with audience on just one side,
i.e. the front.

• Arena Theatre:

• A central stage surrounded by audience on all sides. The stage area is often raised to
improve sightlines.

• Flexible theatre:

• Sometimes called a "Black Box" theatre, these stages are often big empty boxes painted
black inside.

• Profile Theatres:

Often used in "found space" theatres, i.e. theatres made by converted from other
spaces.

• Sports Arenas:

Sports arenas often serve as venues for Music Concerts. In form they resemble very
large arena stage (more accurately the arena stage resembles a sports arena), but with a
rectangular floor plan.