TDR 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Renaissance Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Fourth Wall
27 Apr 2017
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Comes from a secular desire to party and entertain. Common styles of theatre included early forms of sitcoms, with stock characters and humor. Constructed theatres instead of finding them in hillsides: most often built in colosseums, with a half circle orchestra and a similar thrust stage, included a vomitorium=hallway for actors to enter unseen by audiences. Church has only political or social power, so theatre is used to teach religious concepts because all services were conducted in latin. Rediscover ancients and their theatre styles and plays. Experiment with proscenium stages as an interpretation of ancient theatre. Use a frame called a proscenium arch to separate the playing space from the audience: this separated space is the fourth wall , audience is only on one side of the playing space. Later forms often contain fly loft, curtain legs and borders, an act curtain (sometimes called a grand drape or main rag, and a cyclorama curtain.
