can get a true grasp of a story which several actors are trying to portray. However‚ it hasn’t always been this easy to enjoy a play in a theater. Theatre and plays go back as far as “B.C.” times. Theater has been a means of art and entertainment for thousands of years dating back to the fifth century B.C. The beginning marked with the ancient Greek theaters. Over the vast years of cultural and technological evolution many things have changed. Just the same‚ many things have remained unscathed.
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of the ancient Greek comedy. His works had been preserved in greatest quantity. Most of the known facts about Aristophanes’ life were derived from references from his plays. In 427 BC‚ he began his dramatic career with a play called The Daitaleis (The Banqueters). It was from the surviving fragments to had been a satire on his contemporaries’ educational and moral theories. He was thought to have written forty plays altogether. A large part of his work was concerned with the social‚ literary‚ and
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Theatre Theatre is the activity or profession of acting in‚ producing‚ directing‚ or writing plays. It has greatly developed since ancient Greek times to the theatre we are accustomed to now. Theatre was created in the 6th century B.C by the Greeks during a festival for the god Dionysus‚ the god of theatre and wine amongst other things. The festival was a way for the greeks to have fun and be creative and expressive as well as honor the gods. People who pursue a career in theatre are called
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Ancient Greek theaters were very large‚ open-air structures that took advantage of sloping hillsides for their terraced seating. Because of drama’s close connection with religion‚ theaters were often located in or near sanctuaries. Similarly‚ the Theater of Dionysus in Athens was situated in the sacred precinct of Dionysus at the foot of the Acropolis. There were four main physical elements that shaped up 5th century of Greek Theatre and they consisted of the orchestra‚the theatron‚ the skene and
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M.A 09/10/2013 Social Context or Social Confusion? In the passage from The Power Of Context‚ Gladwell explores the behaviors of people and links them together to form a rather controversial argument about whether it is the surroundings of a person that causes him or her to do wrong or whether it is the person’s moulding of their mind that causes them to do so. However‚ I have come to loggerheads with many aspects of Gladwells’s discussion and examples written on in the passage as I‚ for
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THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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Theatre probably arose as a performance of ritual activities that did not require initiation on the part of the spectator. This similarity of early theatre to ritual is negatively attested by Aristotle‚ who in his Poetics defined theatre in contrast to the performances of sacred mysteries: theatre did not require the spectator to fast‚ drink the kykeon‚ or march in a procession; however theatre did resemble the sacred mysteries in the sense that it brought purification and healing to the spectator
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Theatre History 1. Theatre and men are as related as mirror and reflection as self and shadow and study theatre of a particular era‚ and you learn the religious‚ social‚ political and economic influences of that time and also learn people’s desires‚ ideals and needs and gain insight into the present from what has gone before. 2. A) drama means to do or act B) Drama was born out of the dance of primitive man‚ when his instinctive rhythmic movements evolved into pantomimes that told or showed
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The Messenger’s Speech I arrive with tragic news from the hospital. I will tell all that I saw‚ no lies or cover-ups. I followed my master‚ the Hospital Administrator‚ To the ward of detainment. Where the women‚ with their heads drooped‚ Newborns starving in their arms The smell of death‚ all around‚ The odor of vomit‚ splattered on the floor‚ Like the blood of maiden Monica‚ Was soon to be. Suddenly we heard a piercing scream‚ A sound that raised the hairs on the back of my neck
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Traditional Western theatre‚ beginning with the ancient Greeks‚ was divided into comedy and tragedy. A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero‚ whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.in this essay I want to make comparison between the European theatre and the Middle east theatre the first playwrite Oscar Wilde and his work “the importance of being earnest”.the second one is Tawfik El Hakim
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