Representational and Presentational

REPRESENTATIONAL AND PRESENTATIONAL

Which are any of the forms of theatre are presented to a live audience. The term theatre is often applied only to dramatic and musical plays, but it can properly including in opera, dance, vaudeville and other forms. All this which have certain elements in common. They are essentially visual are experienced directy (athough film, videotapes or recorded sound may be incorporated into a performance). All this are governed by sets of rules such as scripts, secenarios, scores, or choreography that determune the language and actions of the performers, language, action or atmosphere may be contrived in order to show emotional responses from audience.
Theatre production usually can diveded in 2 category depending on the theatre artists purposes as they relate to an audiences persepective o reality. In representational theatre the artist strive to create a visual and performance reality on stage that tricks the audience into accepting the idea that what they are seeing is real. For example, the amount of that you are in the theatre watching the play you accept that what you are seeing is real and is happening in front of you. The audience become a passive to view of the experience that is happening to the characters in the drama. In the moment, the artist must change to in character in theatre drama. From time to time the audience may respond to what is happening either in laughter or applause but for the most part, the audience is there to watch and hopefully, be entertained, educated, enlightened or moved by the performance.
The artist in presentational theatre in Malaysia try to challenge the natural passivity of audence by creating a moment to moment reality, forcing the viewers to actively participate in the creation of the reality. For example, in representational theatre there are normally realistic settings on stage with actors assigned only one role throughout the production. In representational theatre the setting may not be realistic, at all and actors may be assiged a number of roles often shifting from role to role with only the most minimal of physical changes. The audience is challenged to keep up with what is developing on stage as the story is told. The actors shift roles by changing vocal characteristics, costumes, props and other. For example, an actor may begin the scene as a member of the Tetonic Theatre Project, but then as the narrative debelopes, shift into a diferent character. In presentational theatee these changes are done thoughout a play to challenge the audience to remember that they are active participants in the production of a play. As viewer of the play they must use their imagination to assist the actors in creating the full scene. So a doorway represens a house , a chair represents a living room.
In presentational theatre, epic stories can be told with a minimum number of actors and a few costumes and prop. The audince will see only a bare stagem a section of fence and a projection screen. Actors will use only what they can carry to alter the location, time, and players in a scene. Visual prohections will be used to develop mood, act as narratorm and to sugges locale. The audience will use this basic structure to follow the actors as they tell the story. Many types of drama in the history of theatre do make use of the presentational in outside and its many possible interactions wtih the representational in inside.
Presentational and Representational is a style or method if theatre wherein the actors, while playing, do not recodgnior acknowledge the existence of the audience. The actors relationship with their characters are futher characterized by emersion so complete that the actor no longer senses his own existence, bit only that of the character.

In Representational theatre that which attempts to close in simulate reality. In representational theatre, realistic sets are used and each actor potrays a single character. The converse presentational theatre is a art form which relies on audience imagination to a greate extent, using simpler sets and quite oftenm and multiple roles as actor.

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