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Theatre, a sub category in fine arts is the compound term used in referring to different live performances of stage production by different playwrights. It is a term derived from the Greeks that means the location or the venue where a performance is staged for an attending live audience. Performance by the cast is though procedures that include spoken dialogue along with songs and dance, all induced during act theatre education.

The origins of modern one dates back to ancient Greek from where most of the modern aspects of theatre are derived. These include the different genres, terms used and the general plot of plays or dramas. Dram, musicals, operas and plays all fall under theatrical acts.

There is a wide variety of courses that fall under the different categories and types of act theatre. The first type is drama which is the form in which a writers fictional concept is represented in form of a live performance enacted on stage for a live audience. Famous examples of drama are William Shakespeare's hamlet and Oedipus the king by Sopheles.

Drama may employ the use of song and dance plus a variety of musical compositions as literal supplements for spoken speech in the staging if a dramatic performance for an audience.

The second subcategory is musical one. This is the use of a combination of styles which include song and dance together with the cast of performance of dialogue on stage in spoken speech all in one production. The original roots of musical theatre was the emergence of tragic comedy which gave birth to the staging of musical comedy in the 1800s with famous examples including the Edwardian musical comedy and my fair lady and the phantom of the opera as later examples.

Comedy and tragedy are two additional subgroups of it. Comedy includes productions that use humor as a vehicle to tell stories that qualify as comedies. In comedy the main aim is usually humor in which different literal skills. For instance, in numerous cases, you will find that mimics are adopted for use by the persons involved.

Tragedy on the other hand is a theatrical imitation of actions that are serious presented in an artistic form. It depicts tragic concepts for example in history, love past and present events including others that have an element of tragedy to the characters. It depicts death, loss and suffering and has remained an important site of cultural experimentation. Modern tragedy is also commonly referred to as melodrama, tragicomic or epic theater.

In theatre, an array of different technical skills and aspects are used in accessorizing the cast on stage. These aspects mostly affect the writing structure of a playwrights dramatic text as opposed to other literature texts.

For a complete production, contributions staring from the playwright and the cast of performers or actors to the inputs by the stage director and his supporting staff are all needed for the successful staging of a performance. Stage decor, make up, costumes and props are also used in supplementing the performance. This are all induced in the act theatre education process.