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Greek Theatre

In Greek theatre, the god of wine, Dionysus, was often celebrated.  There were many festivals, rituals, and plays about him.  In fact, in the 530’s BCE, when Pisistratus took over he expanded a festival about the god of wine and turned Athens into Dionysia with a theatre competition at the center of it.

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In Roman theatre, they adopted a lot of traits from Greek theatre but also adapted quite a bit.  The festival of Dionysus was turned into the festival of Jupiter .  In 240 BCE, drama was finally added to the festival of Jupiter and Greek plays were often presented with a Greek slave to translate it to the Romans.  In 264 BCE, gladiator battles were added.  These battles were with a slave, prisoner of war, or a gladiator by choice against either animals or other gladiators.

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Chorus dances were very popular in the Zhou Dynasty, this ranged from 1066 BCE to 221 BCE.  Hunting and animal dances were also very popular from 1766 BCE to 1066 BCE

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Japanese theatre mainly consisted of Kabuki.  This was very popular from 1603 to 1868.  But due to many complications, women were banned, men playing women was banned in 1642, homosexuality was banned in 1648, and young boys were banned from theater in 1652

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The first Bengali theater was established in 1795.  The first Hindu theater was established in 1831.

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In theater in the Middle Ages, mystery plays and passion plays were extremely popular.  Both of which had extreme ties to Christianity.  Passion plays were about the suffering and sacrifice of Jesus and mystery plays more so involved Adam and Eve, or Cain and Abel.  The first mystery plays showed up during the 13th century and the first passion play was said to be in 1634

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During the Renaissance era, the Italians brought back Roman comedy and added in a multitude of gross and immature humor that people still use today.  In 1560 women were finally allowed to act again but only in Italy.  Somewhere in the 15th century

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In the Elizabethan theater era, the theaters rose to a peak in 1576.  But the were destroyed by the Puritans for certain ritualistic beliefs in 1648.

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In 1825, Eugene Scribe developed “the well made play”.  Shakespeare was very popular still and there were many plays including Shakespeare.  First gas lighting in 1861 which replaced the candle light which was typically used to light a stage.

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In the 1920’s television was invented so people all over the world could watch live performances even in other countries.  And in 1953 color television came out to provide audiences with more lively presentations.

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Young boys were banned in the Kabuki era for prostitution