THEA241 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dianoia, Lascaux, Sophocles
22 Dec 2016
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Communication, subjective, live, storytelling, conflict and resolution, education, course, transfer of information, entertainment, business, collaborative art form, interactive, building, holding mirror, scope (theatre of. War), soapbox, human experience, soapbox, opinion, place to see live performance, career, improvisation and etc. Influenced by paintings on cave walls (lascaux cave drawings) 17,000 yrs. ago o. Greatest influences may have been the greeks, elizabethan renaissance, and. Early greek farmers plowing the farming circle. Early greek theatre started with poets writing for religious ceremonies . People were there and they built the place where the people were. Thespis stood on a cart, first to use one actor- won the first contest 534 bce. Aeschylus small circle theatre, gave us the second actor. Sophocles gave us third actor, that was it for the greeks. The above is the correct time-line for these poets. Greek theatre tragedy (from the goat) - gods, catharsis, flaw, universal truths. Dionysus god of fertility, wine, sexuality, and patron of theatre.
