Difference Between Theatre For Young Audience And TYA

When people hear “theatre for young audience,” majority of them associate it with fairy tales filled with bright colors and playful music. Although, this particular entertainment has a role in Theatre for Young Audiences, TYA is more than that. TYA is believed to be a more official type of theatre, meaning that although its purpose is supposed to be entertainment for young people, it has a more in depth meaning. History, children’s books, folk and fairy tales, or real life issues that are important to young people, all make up a storyline for TYA. TYA is the performance of a set theatrical reproduction by actors in front of an audience that consists of young people that are children and/or youth. However, that is, no limit on exactly who …show more content…
A main difference that lies between theatres in general and Theatre for Young Audiences is that Theatre for Young Audience is more of a sector of theatre. However, although theatre in general is the main division, it contains characteristics that majority of the subdivisions must exhibit. Theatre is an imitation of humans in action so it becomes familiar as well as lifelike. However, the characters are different from us. The performances are immediate meaning that what happens now will never happen again in the similar way, which is why there is never two performances exactly like. Two things that play a role in the theatre are the script and the audience. The script or the play is not always written down, but if it is not written down, the actors start to improvise, which is embodied within the actor, but only seen by the audience. The audience brings their own personal experiences with them to performances and their presences affects the event and allows the audience to feel as if they are …show more content…
Majority of plays in the theatre, however, contain metaphors to help their script develop. In theatre, the use of metaphors help the playwrights develop a comparison amongst two dissimilar things. Some of the variety of plays that we read and discussed this semester use metaphors. In particular, The Wrestling Season, by Laurie Brooks, used wrestling as the central unifying metaphor. Wrestling functioned as the metaphor in this play for the struggles that the teenagers battled in high school. The set of the play consisted of a set that was just a wrestling mat, although there were scenes that were believed to be outside of the school as well as the wrestling gym. The characters of the play, all wore the same thing, which was spandex wrestling uniforms. The characters not only wrestled physically, but also mentally and verbally, only to try to get supremacy over the other with a referee there for controlling of the actions happening. There were weapons used for this match, but not quite the physical ones. The weapons consisted of the rumors and labels that were started and spread