The History of Theater by Mason Peckham https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x Made with a wish on a star en-us 2020-09-14 18:58:27 UTC 2020-09-24 22:28:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3ad.png Greek Theater 525 BCE - 385 BCE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/745554672
  • The Greeks believed that theater could heal so they used theater to help heal those that had problems in their minds
    • ]]>     2020-09-14 19:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/745554672     Roman Theater 260 BCE - 476 CE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/745576410
  • Versus fescennini was a Roman comic satire that involved men in rough masks reciting joky and obsene poems. These were commonly performed at weddings and the Harvest Festival.
  • Men were the only actors in Roman plays until empire times when there were a few female actresses who performed on major stages.
    • ]]>     2020-09-14 19:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/745576410     Chinese Theatre 1766 BCE - 221 BCE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/751578272
  • During the Shang dynasty (c. 1766–1066 BC), dances imitating animals were peformed. The “animal movements” performed in those dances are still an intregal part of many martial art, dance, and theater traditions today.
  • In the Zhou dynasty (c. 1066–221 BC), chorus dances were popular. These dances were split into wu dances performed by men and xi dances performed by women.
    • ]]>     2020-09-16 13:53:22 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/751578272     Japanese Noh Theatre 1500s C.E. - 1867 C.E. peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/768126718
  • Noh theatre was the official art form of the samurai.
  • In the Edo Period (1603-1868), a single Noh performance could take up to an entire day and the themes were often things close to samurai's heart, such as honor, duty and revenge and Zen austerity.
    • ]]>     2020-09-22 13:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/768126718     Middle Ages peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774063604
  • In 692, the Quinisext Council of the church passed a resolution that fordade all mimes, theatre and other spectacles.
  • The Church later used theatre to teach the mostly illiterate masses the Bible stories.
    • ]]>     2020-09-23 23:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774063604     Renaissance Theater (Commedia dell’arte) 1600 CE - 1800 CE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774078746
  • Commedia dell’arte was mainly improvisation with a minimalistic set.
    • ]]>     2020-09-23 23:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774078746     Elizabethan Theatre 1558 CE - 1680 CE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774095687
  • In the 16th century, actors traveled from town to town on a cart, looking for audiences to pay to watch them perform.
  • During this era, most plays were seen at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
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  • A major scenic invention during this time was the pandora. A pandora was set up in a circular building in which the audience, sitting on a central platform, was totally surrounded by a continuous painting.
  • The next development in spectacle was the moving panorama, in which a continuous scene was painted on a long cloth, hung from an overhead track, and attached at both ends to spools. When the spools were turned, the cloth moved across the stage so that the actors with their carriages and other props could move from one location to another without changing wings and drops.
    • ]]>     2020-09-24 00:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774108805     Modern Theatre 1900s CE - Today peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774116871
  • Unlike the Elizabethan times, the cheapest seats in a theater are in the very back and the most expensive are in the front.
    • ]]>     2020-09-24 00:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/774116871     Sanskrit Theatre 1 CE - 1400 CE peckhm0088 https://padlet.com/peckhm0088/yruv0l4257z5455x/wish/777332846
  • The green room was first introduced during this time.
  • During the Islamic conquests in the 10th and 11th centuries, theatre was actually discouraged or even forbidden entirely.
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