The relationship between theatre and religion contains many similarities. The origins of theatre are in religion. Theatre is believed to have evolved from many different religious rituals. In religion, often there are rituals to be had (Concise). For example, a wedding is staged and there are “actors.” It is a ritual; they go through their lines and it has a beginning, middle, and end. As time went on, theatre more dealt with legends or history but there was still a religious or moral message. Soon after that was when the dithyramb was improved and developed by Greek playwright, Thespis. Thespis was a singer for the Dithyrambic (Stephenson 2). He was the first actor to step forward form the chorus and to portray a single character (Stephenson
