Monday, April 23, 2012

History Of Theatre

The thing I found most interesting in the history if theatre, is the way the acoustics work in a Greek theatre. After hearing many educated guesses from people through history, I believe what most people have concluded. Theatre comes from rituals.Though there is no way to prove where theatre comes from, religion seems to be the beginning of many things. I suppose theatre falls under that category as well. I loved all the different rule alterations during the development of theatre, and how it is still changing today. From natives dancing around a fire praising spirits, to live puppet sex in vigorous harmony. Theatre has changed quite a bit since when ever it started. Even though it has come so far, it is best sometimes to consider your roots. It is like the Greek theatre. You could stand in the center of the orchestra, whisper, and people in the last row would hear what you're saying. Since then, shows around the world have tried to find a theatre that provides as good of acoustics as that but all they had to do was look back into the old ways.

3 comments:

  1. Cap could certainly benefit from a theatre like the ones the Greeks had, I believe. I agree with your point of view, theatre certainly is constantly growing. The evolution of theatre is the closest thing we have to a science in these three years, which makes me chuckle. I really hope the puppet sex was a reference to Team America: World Police. If so, well done. If not... well done.

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  2. Avenue Q. But that works too. lol

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