mapeh quiz theater 4q

• Theater- it began from myth,ritual,and ceremony it came from mannerism to habit until it became as a tradition
• Theater- it means a place of seeing
• Playwright- who writes the scripts
• Director- who rehearses the performers
• Designer and technical crew - produce props to create scene
• Actor/actress- they are the one that performs on stage
• true theater act when an audience witnesses it
• European theater began in Ancient Greece
• The purposeof the festival is to honor there gods
• it is the god of wine and fertility Dionysus
• A religious festival of Dionysus is The cult of Dionysus to honor him
• These are the three well known Greek tragedy playwright wich are Sophacoles,Euripides and Aeschylus
• Three types of drama in Greek Theater which are tragedy , comedy and satyr
• Tragos or "goat" and won(ode) meaning song referring to goat sacrificed to Dionysus before performances or to goat skin worn by the performers which is Tragedy
• Tragedy is a dramatic play dealt with tragic eventsand have an unhappy ending
• Thespis is the first actor and introduce the us of mask and also known as Father of tragedy
• Three actor are only allowed to perform on stage
• Comedy plays were derived from imitation
• Aristophanes wrote the most of the comedy plays
• Lysistrata a humorous tale about a strong woman who led a female coalition to end war in Greece
• Cyclops was an adventurous comedy by Euripides
• Satyr plays contains comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending
• Satyr plays feature half man and half goat character they were awful ,ridiculous and usually drunk
• Theater builing were called Theatron
• Ochestra A large circular or rectangular area at the center part of the theater
• skene - stage
• parodos - side entrance
• Theatron viewing place on the slope of the hill
• Roman Theater


  The theater of ancient Rome started in the 3rd century BC
• Art forms in Roman theater

  • Festival performances of street theatre
  • Acrobatics
  • Staging of comedies of Plautus
  • High-verbally elaborate tragedies of Seneca
• Although Rome had a native tradition of performance, the Hellenization (historical spread of ancient Greek culture) of Roman culture in the 3rd century BC had an intense and energizing effect on Roman theater and encouraged the development of Latin literature
• Etruscan actors


  The first experienced theater actors in the 4th century BC
• Roman drama began with the plays of Livius Andronicus


  240 BC
• Roman drama remained popular throughout late Antiquity
• By the mid 4th century AD, 102 out of 176 ludi publici were dedicated to theater, aside a considerably lower number of gladiator and chariot racing events
• Greek theatres


  • Had a great influence on the Roman's theater
• Pompey's theatre


  One of the first permanent (non-wooden) theatres in Rome, whose structure was somewhat similar to the Theatron of Athens
• Features of Pompey's theatre complex

  • Large quadriporticus (a columned quadrangle) directly behind the scaenae fron (an elaborately decorated background of theatre stage)
  • Enclosed by large columned porticos with an expansive garden complex of fountains and statues
  • Rooms dedicated to the exposition of art and other works collected by Pompey Magnus located along the stretch of covered arcade
• Roman theater plays

  • Themes were chariots races, gladiators, and public executions
  • Romans loved a good spectacle
  • They loved to watch combat and admired blood sports and gladiator competition
  • The more realistic the violence, the more it pleased Roman audiences
• Christians opposed the barbaric themes of the plays


  Closed down all theaters