Theatre

 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, and dance.

 

Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. 

Modern  theatre is derived in large measure from ancient Greek drama, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre scholar Patrice Palvis defines theatricality, theatrical language, stage writing, and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature and the arts in general.

Theatre today, broadly defined, includes performances of plays and musicals, ballets, operas and various other forms.