What is Greek Theatre?
Still now Greek Theatre is used to speak to vast audiences all over the world. It is still studied in classrooms and lecture halls everywhere. Dramatic interpretations are ever changing and new translations are continuously being adapted. Greek plays where written 2,500 years ago and there themes are and will always to valid to the society that they are studied in. Most of the information and research we have on Greek Theatre is from the plays themselves. We can also gather information about characters, set, themes and context from authors from the time, vase paintings that have been discovered and other source materials. There are four different types of Greek Theatre dithyrambs, tragedies, satyr-plays and comedies. …show more content…
Athenians dressed up as satyrs for the springtime Anthesteria festival that celebrated Dionysus’s arrival and the new wine. Satyrs where light hearted relief for audiences the characters behaved badly, excessively eating and drinking and trying to find sexual gratification. They wore very little clothes and full head masks, they were half-man half-animal, usually a horse with an erect phallus. Playwright’s started to put on a satyr-play after their three tragedies as tragedies where very intense and had heavy subject matter a satyr-play was a great way to leave the audience with something more upbeat and comical. Like tragedy it took its subject matter from myth and made it into something …show more content…
They played on the role reversal of hierarchy and public humiliation of powerful figures. They featured three actors and one would have the change to quickly costume change much to the hilarity of their audiences. The costumes that they wore where ridiculous and they wore a sewn on leather phallus they language they used was vulgar and rude gaining their laughs from explicit sexual humor. Masks where used throughout comedy and where bigger and more distorted than life like faces. They also used padding in their costumes to accentuate comedic body
Still now Greek Theatre is used to speak to vast audiences all over the world. It is still studied in classrooms and lecture halls everywhere. Dramatic interpretations are ever changing and new translations are continuously being adapted. Greek plays where written 2,500 years ago and there themes are and will always to valid to the society that they are studied in. Most of the information and research we have on Greek Theatre is from the plays themselves. We can also gather information about characters, set, themes and context from authors from the time, vase paintings that have been discovered and other source materials. There are four different types of Greek Theatre dithyrambs, tragedies, satyr-plays and comedies. …show more content…
Athenians dressed up as satyrs for the springtime Anthesteria festival that celebrated Dionysus’s arrival and the new wine. Satyrs where light hearted relief for audiences the characters behaved badly, excessively eating and drinking and trying to find sexual gratification. They wore very little clothes and full head masks, they were half-man half-animal, usually a horse with an erect phallus. Playwright’s started to put on a satyr-play after their three tragedies as tragedies where very intense and had heavy subject matter a satyr-play was a great way to leave the audience with something more upbeat and comical. Like tragedy it took its subject matter from myth and made it into something …show more content…
They played on the role reversal of hierarchy and public humiliation of powerful figures. They featured three actors and one would have the change to quickly costume change much to the hilarity of their audiences. The costumes that they wore where ridiculous and they wore a sewn on leather phallus they language they used was vulgar and rude gaining their laughs from explicit sexual humor. Masks where used throughout comedy and where bigger and more distorted than life like faces. They also used padding in their costumes to accentuate comedic body