“All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women

merely players.”

SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It

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Where do you Where do you think the think the roots of roots of

Theatre are?Theatre are?

Where do you Where do you think the think the roots of roots of

Theatre are?Theatre are?

Banks of the Nile, in

Egypt.

Representative of the Egyptian Egyptian kingking, of the parts he played in a performance of the world's first recorded "Passion" Play "Passion" Play somewhere around the year 2000 B.C.2000 B.C.

OsirisOsiris, the legendary

king-divinity.

WorshipWorshipWorshipWorship

Realistic

Actors-Actors-warriors died warriors died

of injuries!of injuries!

Battles between the enemies of Osiris and the forces led by his son, Ap-uat.

Rebirth of Osiris as a god and the prediction to all the faithful of their own

final resurrection.

Acient Egypt Acient Egypt Acient GreeceAcient Greece

ReligionReligion

Dithyrambs

Greek God Dionysus

540-530 BC

Tumultuous time of Greek history

Homer

IlliadOdyssey

Pisistratus

Resurgence of many fine actors and

writers.

Performing arts

Phrynichus

480 BC

Renaissance of intellectualism and fine

theatre in Athens

““The Golden Age” The Golden Age” of Greek Theatre

Peloponnesian war

Drastic decline. The Theatre lost vitality!

Birth of “New Comedy”

The masks

Used to convey emotion, and cover the identity of

theactor.

Lasted two hours.

Mostly comedies.

•A black wig meant the character was a

young man.•A gray wig meant the character was

an old man.

•A red wig meant the

character was a slave.

•A white robe meant the

character was an old man.

•A purple robe meant

the character was a young

man.

•A yellow robe meant the

character was a woman

•A yellow tassel meant the

character was a god.

• Roman Catholic church dominated religion,education and often politics.

• Theatre was reborn as liturgical dramas.

• 1500s Queen Elizabeth was controlling the stage through a system of censorship.

• Puritan opposition to the stage argued:o the stage was pagan;o any playthat represented a religious figure was idolatrous.

Neoclassical Theatre

18th century

• Decorum

• Rigorus adherence to the classical unities

• Grandiosity!

• Large gestures and melodrama.

Late Modern Theatre

Late Modern Theatre

20th century

20th century

• Continues the project of realism.

…However…

• Experimental Theatre.

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the

most immediate way in which a human being can share with

another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

Oscar Wilde

Flash Quiz - The History Of Theatre