ARTS

• THEATER

  • is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
• THEATER

  • The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek théatron means "a place for viewing"
• • The first recorded form of European theater started in Athens, Greece.
  • Around the 6th century during a religious festival in honor of Dionysus(Greek God of wine and fertility).
• Thespis – was considered the first actor of theater which is why actors are sometimes referred to as Thespians.
• • Thespis also introduce the use of masks in Greek theaters.
  • It depicts the expressions of age and emotions.
  •  In those times, women are not allowed to perform that’s why men wore masks and played their parts.
• COMEDY

  • It was a sort of play that made the people laugh.
  • For ancient Greeks and Romans a comedy was a stage play with a happy ending.
  • Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster
• TRAGEDY

  • It was an influential and popular form of drama.
  • Greek tragedy was performed in an open theater called “Theatron”
  • The stories usually deal with moral rights and wrongs.
• PASTORAL

  • The form exhibited a love story that featured romanticized characters shepherds and shepherdesses, nymphs, and satyrs in a romantic rural setting.
• Theatron

  • seating area that was organized into different sections that corresponded to the social class of the viewers.
  • Originally referred to as the audience space.
• Prohedia

  • (Throne of Priest of Dionysus) came from the word prohedriai, which means in front of or around the orchestra.
  • Most honored seats reserved especially for priests of Dionysus and dignitaries.
• Orchestra

  • constructed in a circular manner, semi-circular for a Roman theater.
  • Stage for performance.
• Diazomata – broad curving latitudinal passageways and walkways that intersect with the vertical stairways.
• Kerkides – Divider of the seating areas into sections.
• Skene – a tent behind the orchestra where the backdrops are hung and where the actors can hide and change their costumes.
• ROMAN AMPHITHEATER

  AMPHI means “TWO”
• ROMAN AMPHITHEATER

  THEATROS means “THEATRE”
• ROMAN AMPHITHEATER

  “The ARENA”
• Mask

  • constructed of light materials such as wood, linen, cork, and sometimes real hair.
  • It helps to define the characters of the actors through exaggerated expressions.
• Costumes

  • help indicate the social status, gender, and age of a character.
  • Made more elaborate and decorated than everyday clothing.
• Could be buskins or raised platform shoes symbolizing superior status (tragic actors) or plain socks (comic actors)
• Props

  • it could be a crown to present a king, a lyre for a musician, or a walking stick to suggest age and disabilities.
  • Created and provided by a props-maker (skeuopoios) to the actors that were used for symbolism.
• ROMAN ACTOR’S COSTUMES AND PROPS

  PURPLE – RICH MAN, EMPEROR
• ROMAN ACTOR’S COSTUMES AND PROPS

  RED – POOR MAN
• ROMAN ACTOR’S COSTUMES AND PROPS

  YELLOW - WOMAN
• ROMAN ACTOR’S COSTUMES AND PROPS

  YELLOW TASSEL - GOD
• Corset – made of whalebone to pinch the waist, giving an appearance of an appealing petite body frame.
• Stomacher – serves as filler for the deep neck of the dress that was done with intricate embroidery, and the forepart.
• Britches or Breeches – are short trousers fastened below the knee.
• Doublet- a well-fitted or snug-fitted coat or jacket with buttons.
• Cravat – a short and wide strip of fabric worn around the neck and tucked inside an open-necked shirt or coat.