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Theatre in Greece came to when people started singing songs called Dithyrambs turned into theatre. When these singers one being Thespis learned to switch characters when acting out songs (Dithyrambs).
Dithyrambs made theatre and festivals with seats or a crowd sitting around a theatre center.

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A Roman theatre had a big building in the back of there stage to change masks and costumes called a scaenae frons

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Instead of having a lots of props they had a table and two chairs. Depending on how the chairs were positioned they could be a bridge or even a wall.

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In Japanese theatre colors that may mean bad or villain means hero or good there.

It was not common for women to play female character so men did and most commonly dressed on a day to day bases as a women like a common day drag queen.

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Bharata Muni may not have been a real person but a god.

Was the first to allow women to act on stage.

A cool thing about Sanskrit theatre is that instead of there theatre being sectioned by genre there were 9 moods and 10 Categories. The two main moods were Nataka and Prakarana.

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Women could participate!!!

It was also said to be sinful so they had made them start performing it in church so it would be less “sinful”.
They made wagons in which performers, well, performed on lasting about an hour each and there were usually 40+ wagons performing!

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Tudors loved theatre. Henry VII (the first Tudor King) paid for court entertainment. His son Henry VIII (had lots of wives) and an independent office of revels that was managed by a master of revels whose job was to manage all the plays.

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Commedia dell’arte was a very important form of Italian theatre.
There were a company consisting of usually about 7 men and 3 woman who would act out scenes and music usually about love and intrigue.The actors in these plays had to be smart and agile to improvise well these actors would have to perform acrobatic stunts, battles/fight, and dances.

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In Early North America they did many rituals that was made up of songs, dances, and contained many stories. These stories include much of history and reinforced beliefs. Sadly it got token down for a while but as always it comes back.
A popular performance was Buffalo Bill Cody “Wild West Show”.

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Everyone knows about broadway theatre so let’s go over some interesting people in broadway.

Thomas Lanier Williams (Tennessee)

Williams was born in Mississippi and worked at a shoe factory as a kid. In 1944 he had his first big success called “The Glass Menagerie”. This play was a semi-autobiographical play and was a great start to his career.

Authur Miller

Miller was born in a more wealthy filled life, sadly for him when the stock market crashed something happened to his fathers business. An interesting fact about Miller is he had married the most beautiful woman for 5 years; Marilyn Monroe.