Theatre History Greek theatre

Today we looked at exploring Greek Theatre, its conventions and its impact on modern theatre.

• Greek theatre was conducted in large open air theatre spaces, these were designed to allow a large amount of people to watch performances. The way the structure was built was to allow the maximum amount of people to see and hear what was happening on stage
• To help all the actors get the message across a group of actors called the "chorus" would act and speak in unison, this allowed all the audience, including those at the back to understand what was happening.

• All the actors in a greek theatre performance wore masks to emphasis and exaggerate their characters emotions
• Greek Plays came in three different categories, Comedy, tragedy and Satyr, these three plays evolved throughout the ages into the different types that we have now. 

We explored simple lines, performed in a chorus, with actions and lines in unison. We used a simple topic to try and see how difficult it was to try and act out lines in such a way that it would be simple to understand.