https://padlet.com/corong0611/u71cp26co0z954gy en-us 2023-02-08 20:21:50 UTC 2025-11-22 01:30:40 UTC hello@padlet.com corong0611 https://padlet.com/corong0611/u71cp26co0z954gy/wish/2494359644 Interesting facts 

1. Theatre was built to honor Greek gods.
2. The name of the stage was skene
3. Even a coin being dropped in the middle of the theater it could be heard by everyone.
4. Sometimes women were allowed to watch or even play

]]> 2023-02-24 20:46:59 UTC https://padlet.com/corong0611/u71cp26co0z954gy/wish/2494359644 corong0611 https://padlet.com/corong0611/u71cp26co0z954gy/wish/2494360049 Interesting facts 

• Only men could participate 
• 10,000 seat capacity and had 17500 to 20000 members in the audience 
• The theater is currently being restored 

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• During the Tang Dynasty 
• Women could act
• Performers started practicing disciplines like tightrope walking, pole climbing and sword swallowing. 

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Men played women (no women in theatre) 

In 2001 Noh the worlds oldest stage performance art was selected as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity

Colorful Costumes and masks 

Was brought from China to Japan

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• We still don’t know when Sanskrit theater started (Sanskrit Literature started around 1500 BCE)
• Drama was created as a religious teaching tool
• Women first were allowed to act

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• Mainly mystery plays and morality plays
• Religion influenced them a lot 
• Churches weren’t big enough for all the stuff so they did started performing outside (clergy couldn’t be part of the play outside) 

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Actors would often be writers, authors or performers

First time women were seen on stage

Everybody got paid 

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• Actors had to be more professional since they weren’t allowed to have religious or political plays
• Shakespeare was from this era  
• The first theater was probably the Red Lion which was built in 1567

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• Was heavily influenced by the British at first 
• It was easier for actors to move from theater to theater or other destinations
• Permanent and temporary places for performance

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• Between 1907 and 1931, there was a follies every year each leggier and more sumptuous than the last 
• Must have at least 500 seats to be considered broadway (located in Manhattan)
• The first thoroughly modern musical was the 1927 Show Boat

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