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20th Century Theater: Theater of the absurd, realism, physical theater, musicals

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20th Century Theater: Theater of the absurd, realism, physical theater, musicals

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These year-round and seasonal theatres produced mainly farces, comedies, vaudevilles and even melodramas, but there were also a significant number of theatres offering realistic or naturalistic theatre. These included Aleksey Suvorin's Maly Theatre and the Moscow Dramatic Theatre.
Common themes in the new early 20th century drama were political, reflecting the unease or rebellion of the workers against the state, philosophical, delving into the who and why of human life and existence, and revolutionary, exploring the themes of colonization and loss of territory.

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Acting styles in the early 19th centurywere prone to exaggerated movement, gestures, grandiose effects, spectacular drama, physical comedy and gags and outlandish costumes.
Popular drama, as performed by what were known as “boulevard theatres,” introduced melodrama, a form that was to dominate theatre in the 19th century

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18th century theater: romanticism, naturalism

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18th century theater: romanticism, naturalism

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The eighteenth century was the great age of theatre. In London and the provinces, large purpose-built auditoriums were built to house the huge crowds that flocked nightly to see plays and musical performances. A variety of entertainments were on offer, from playsand ballets to tightrope-walkers and acrobats.
Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical.
Naturalism added scientific elements such as environment and heredity to fictional characters.

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English Renaissance theatre, also known as Renaissance English theatre and Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1558 and 1642. This is the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson.
In 1576 James Burbage (father of the actor, Richard Burbage) started the Elizabethan theatre history by obtaining a lease and permission to build 'The Theatre' in Shoreditch, London.

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from around 1660 to 1710. The Restoration period refers to the time following the restoration of the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies under King Charles II in 1660.One of the major themes of restoration comedy is marriage and the game of love. But if marriage is a mirror of society, the couples in the plays show something very dark and sinister about order. Many critiques of marriage in the comedies are devastating.

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Between the 14th and 16th centuries Renaissance drama developed in Italy, marking an end to medieval practices and a release of traditional Roman ways of presenting drama.
The Renaissance theater was an intimate theater as the actor was no more than forty feet from his audience. Performances of the same play were repeated while this play was new, then fewer times, until after about a year and a half, the play would cease to be performed.

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Commedia dell'arte,  Italian theatrical form that flourished throughout Europe from the 16th through the 18th century.
Commedia is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century and was responsible for the advent of actresses and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.

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Noh developed from ancient forms of dance drama and from various types of festival drama at shrines and temples that had emerged by the 12th or 13th century.
Noh is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Developed by Kan'ami and his son Zeami, it is the oldest major theatre art that is still regularly performed today.

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Medieval theatre encompasses theatrical performance in the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and the beginning of the Renaissance in approximately the 15th century.
There were three different types of plays preformed during medieval times; The Mystery Play, the Miracle Play and the Morality Play.
Simultaneous staging was a distinctive characteristic of medieval theatre.
The best known playwright of farces is Hans Sachs

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from the 1st century B.C.E. to the 3rd Century C.E
Rome
Historians believe the first purpose-built theater wasn't built in Rome until 55 BC.
Famously, the Romans were the first civilization to use concrete widely in construction projects
This decline began when the Roman Empire began to fall in the fourth century C.E. When the empire split west and east, the eastern part became known as Constantinople, Constantinople soon became the center of action and more popular than Rome.

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The theatre of ancient Greece was at its best from 550 BC to 220 BC.
festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Greek theatre began in the 6th century BCE in Athens with the performance of tragedy plays at religious festivals

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Era: Stone Age (6000 BCE - 2000 BCE)
They would dance for the Gods, one person would be the focus, a tribute to or embodiment of the God(s), or a sacrifice.
Imitation was their form of theatre.
Other forms of theatre the cavemen would participate in included dance