CHARACTERISTICS OF THEATRE

Theatre is a genre-whether in prose or verse, usually in dialogue,thought to be represented, the performing arts covering everything related to writing the play, performance and costumes and escenery.
Most of the time means a story drama that chronicles the life events of a series of characters. Dramatic as the adjective  suggests, the ideas of conflict, tension, contrast and emotion associated with drama.

if you consider the theater as a branch of literature or just as a from of narrative,we would be ignoring much of the history of theatre.
Some cultures value the theatre as a medium for storytelling, in others as a religion, show or entertaiment.
As popular entertaiment, has always been individuals or samll groups working on their own, representing everything from circus acts to farces for large masses.
Theatre as a public activity in the literary drama is represented in public theatres,  it is sually a trade or subsidized by the state for the general public. greek tragedy, medieval didactic works and contemporary theatre fall into this category.

THEATRICAL
A representation consists of only two essential elements: actors and audience.
Representation can be mimicking or use language.

Representation can be enhanced by the costumes, makeup, sets accesories, lighting, music and special affects. These elements are used to help create an illusion of places, times, different characters, or to highlight a special quality of representation and distinguish it from everday experiencie.

 CONTEMPORARY THEATRE
Although pure realism ceased to dominated the folk scene after the firs world war, the realist theatre continued to live in the commercial sector, especially in the united satates. however, the objetive seemed to be the psychological realism, and were used for this purpose dramatic andf scenic resources enrealistic.