https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9 Robert Eisner en-us 2021-02-19 14:50:24 UTC 2023-04-04 21:42:27 UTC hello@padlet.com eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1219063198 In Ancient Greek theatre, music was used for medicine. It started with the theatre of Epidaurus in the fourth century BC. The theatre of Epidaurus had near perfect acoustics because of the way it was built. It had no perfectly flat edges, making sure that the sound reflected in many different directions.]]> 2021-02-19 14:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1219063198 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1219175598 In the first century BC, the golden age of Greek theatre is coming to a close, and Roman theatre is just starting. The Roman actors were known as histrionies. This is where we get the word ‘histrionic’.]]> 2021-02-19 15:24:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1219175598 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226360174 We don’t Know when exactly theatre started in China, but it originally started as rituals preformed by shamans, hoping it would bring them good luck with crops and victory in war. During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xaunzong created the Pear Garden, the first known royal performance academy in China.]]> 2021-02-22 13:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226360174 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226415213 Noh theatre originally started in China in the 14th century. It features people in masks. One of the most famous Noh style play is Dōjōji, in which the temple Dōjōji in Kii Province has a bell to be raised to the belfry, but there cannot be any women at the ceremony. ]]> 2021-02-22 13:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226415213 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226789320 Kabuki theatre is a Japanese form of theatre that has gone on since the 1600’s where men paint their faces with white face paint, then apply other colors to their faces, and finally go on stage. It used to use men and women as actors, but later went to only male actors. ]]> 2021-02-22 14:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226789320 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226930602 The mystery plays were very religious religious plays in England from the 9th to 16th century.  In 1210, Pope Innocent III grew suspicious of the growing popularity of the mystery plays and passed a papal edict forbidding clergy to act on a public stage]]> 2021-02-22 15:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1226930602 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1263399402 Elizabethan theatre is the type of theatre that kicked off the madrigals. It also got actors to become more professional. Elizabeth I made it illegal for actors to go from town to town. The first tragedy on an English subject was a play written by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville call “The Tragedies of Gorboduc,” preformed first in 1561.]]> 2021-03-03 12:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1263399402 eisner0192 https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1287417269 Have you heard of “showboats”? If so, this is where it came from. The first play in “the Americas” was in 1606, called “The Theatre of Neptune. Going back to the showboats, the reason they used them was because it was easier for touring.]]> 2021-03-09 13:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eisner0192/89uhd8e3o28ryps9/wish/1287417269