Theater

both deal with social relationships through enactment with living people

• Theater confines itself to showing and saying things about social needs
• ritaul reinforces or brings about change

• most celebrated theater of athens
• in honor of fertility god
• open air structure on the slope of a hill below acropolis

dancing circle

scene building

passageways used by actors, the chorus and the audience to enter the theater

• Prometheus Bound
• Aragmemenon
• The Eumenides

• Sophocles
• Euripides
• Aristophanes
• Aeschylus

• originally performed by preists to teach chrisitain doctrine
• eventually moved out of churches and into marketplaces
• open air festival theater
• dealt with biblical events

found in the permanent greek and roman theaters and in the christian churches with their aisles, naves, and raised alters

• pagent wagon, portable, or processional stages were used
• portable play area

• late sixteenth century
• permanent structures were built

• London's first theater
• built by James Burbage
• open air structure

• built the globe theater
• showcase for shakespeares talents as actor and playwright
• most famous of all london theaters

• Elizabethan playwright
• Macbeth, King Lear, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Othello

italain renaissance to early 17th century

• Classical Theater
• The "New" Drama
• the Opera (Jingxi)

classical drama of china with stories drawn from history, legend, epics, and contemporary events that advocated the virutes of loyalty to family and friends and devotion to work and duty

The "new" Drama

• theatrical with an emphasis on the controlled conventions of acting, dancing, and singing rather than upon text
• Beijing Opera
• heart of the opera was the stage

• Noh Theater
• Kabuki Theater
• Bunraku Puppet Theater

• Noh- Skill
• highly stylized, restrained, and austere form of artisitic expression that depends heavily on music and mime

• situated in corner of a building
• divided into two areas: stage proper (butai) and the bridge (hashigakari)

• carefully controlled by tradition
• shite- prinicipal character
• waki-sideman

• rock entertainment of the 17th cenrury
• combination of the old and new

covers the entire front of the theater and is approached by a ramp, called a hanamichi, or "flower way"

• trained from childhood in singing, dancing, and actings
• divided into basic types such as brave, loyal, villians, comics, children, and women

• Japanese Doll Puppet Thetaer
• performed on a small procenium stage without a hamarichi or revolving

chief puppeteer