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Only one to three actors per play

Most plays were made as worship to Dionysus

Made as a musical, most people on stage were chorus

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Stages would always have a large building behind them for storage, dressing rooms, and music

Actors were more highly regarded as members of society than in Greece

Plays were often “Slice of Life”

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Plays were made to teach morals

Zuju plays typically had 4 acts, and Chuangqi plays could have 30-50 acts

Plays in the Beijing Opera were typically civil and military stories

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Plays were separated into Rasas, or genres based on the moods a play evokes

Most plays ended happily

First culture to allow women to act

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Noh plays have an exclusively male cast

Kabuki plays could be up to 8 hours long

Bunraku plays include a narrator to tell the stories and create the voices

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Entire towns came together to create and view a play

Cycle plays- showed whole cycles, or life from Creation to Last Judgment

Plays were funded by craft or trade guilds

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Comedia Del’arte- Italian, created stock characters and their shapes

Mystery plays- plays based on religious stories

Mystery plays were sponsored by trades people (trades=mysteries)

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Theatre was enjoyed, but Queen Elizabeth I forbid political and religious plays

Plays were staged in gardens, schools, or inns

Shakespeare was an actor before writing plays

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Early North American Theatre 1716-1900 C.E.

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Early North American Theatre 1716-1900 C.E.

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The first recorded play in North America was performed in Canada

Plays were hated in America by Puritans for religious reasons, and by revolutionaries because they were distracting

Plays regained popularity after revolutionary war

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Book musicals spread from New York’s Broadway to all around the world

Encouraged more creative stories, instead of exclusively Bible or religious stories