THST 1040 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Theatre Of Ancient Greece, Live Action Role-Playing Game, Aeschylus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Theatre Studies
• Course: THST 1040
• Professor: Tony Berto

Document Summary

Regardless of what could have happened before this period, we only have physical records going back to the greeks, which means this is the earliest form of theatre we know of. Theatre- theatron (the seeing or viewing place) It (cid:449)as (cid:271)uilt arou(cid:374)d festi(cid:448)als; a (cid:272)ele(cid:271)ratio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)gods(cid:863), espe(cid:272)iall(cid:455) dio(cid:374)(cid:455)sus, the god associating drinking, sexuality and ritual ecstasy, Theatres were outdoors, cut into hillsides and originally had alters in the centre. Performers in ancient greece: began with a leader or priest and a chorus reciting familiar stories. They would talk about what the actor had just said. It used to almost be like a lecture, one person telling a story (a long monologue: aeschylus then added two actors where they can have actual dialogues, then later sophocles added a third actor. Theatre style and narrative: protago(cid:374)ists (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t ordi(cid:374)ar(cid:455) people; very unlike the characters we see in theatre today. The characters in watershed for example, they were ordinary human beings.