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500-400 BC

14000 seat theater built to have perfect audio

Placed in the west so the sun would light up the stage

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About 200-500 BC, Pompey

Actors, singers, and dancers were called histriones (were the English word histrionic came from)

A bad performance could be punished by death

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2000 BC- current?, Shanghai

Started from interpretive dance that told a story

Men will also take on the role of a female

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14th century- current, Shinto

Black hooded people in the background are to be ignored

You are born into acting and only males can act

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1500 BC-5000 BC

most theaters were performed in gardens, courtyards,and palaces

First to allow females to act

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476 AD-1500 AD, Europe

the Catholic Church began to do religious plays in the 9th century

They had small mansions which were like small set up stage carts and people would walk from one to another

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1500 AC-1700 AC

Commedia dell’arte was starting to form in Italy at this moment which was improvised acting

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1558 AC-1642 AC, London

Durning the Renaissance many new play writers came about like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare

Their globe theater burned due to a cannon shooting as an entrance for king Henry the eighth

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1660 AC- 1834 AC, Europe

First indoor theaters were made

At this time people were making comedies about what was happening in real life

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1835 AC-Present

The United States started a playwright course in Harvard

Now many people take part in theater male or female even if they are just community performances