Task Week 3

What I think about theater is a collaborative of art with use of live performers to give the present experience of a real live or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. Theater I think it’s also a form of media, because it can give message to the audience by acting or conclusion of a drama scene. The performers communicate with the audience by through combination of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. To give my feeling to the show, the performance wear a theme costume and props for the background with the same theme depend on the show themes. 

There are different type of theater, one is classical theater which was involve acting and speech. The other are musical theater which involve in only a music and dancing. The way on how the audience get the message from watching the performance is by understanding the storyline of the show, if it was involve on acting or speech.

Theater is lot of interesting during the old day where they don't have digital entertainment yet. Theater is an entertainment for them. So come the famous theater people such as William Shakespeare and others. They are introduce the fine art of theater and until today people are replacing theater with digital cinema.

Back on to understanding media form, actually media is a part of sending an information from another person to another person. So that what actually theater do by giving the conclusion or message by understanding the story. Same goes with the musical theater, it using music and dance for the message or it just in the lyric in the song that is a message.

To me that is how the theater work as a media form, it giving information to the audience by doing performance such as singing, acting, speaking, and dancing. A very good storyline is needed for the theater or else the audience won’t understand the message given. So far today there still people performs theater, but only at specific place such as opera house. In Malaysia, we still having theater show at Istana Budaya. It got a lot of audience on who prefer the old entertainment.