1. Mrs. Abbott Drama Theater Production
What is Theater?
Mrs. Abbott
Drama
Theater Production

2. What the actors are saying.
What is a Script?
Stage Directions: Information about the set and what the actors are physically doing.
Dialogue:
What the actors are saying.

3. Musical Theater
A play, where music and dance are used to tell the story.
We have a whole unit on musical theater so this is as much as you’re going to get here 

4. What is a Play?
A play is a script acted out live for an audience.

5. Comedy and Tragedy
These masks represent the 2 faces of drama.
Classical drama is separated in two parts, comedy and tragedy.

6. The beginning of theater…
Theater began about 2500 years ago in Greece.

7. The beginning of theater…
Ancient Greek Theater
Take notes on the video, answering these questions:
What are the 3 types of theater?
What did Greek Theaters look like?
Why did they wear masks?
What are the functions of the chorus?

8. Who was Dionysus? Dionysus: God of parties and wine
The Festival of Dionysus
Theater competitions
Comedies
Tragedies
Satyr plays

9. A Few Famous Greek Playwrights
Sophocles
Wrote tragedies, including: Oedipus, the King (one of the most famous plays of all time)
Euripides
Wrote tragedies, including Media and the Trojan Women, both plays are still performed today.
Plautus
Who wrote comedies, including: The Brother’s Menaechmus.

10. Roman Theater Stole a whole bunch from the Greeks (including plays)
Gladiatorial Games
Animals fighting people
Crucifixions
Naval Battles
Rome

11. Roman Entertainment The Colosseum Questions:
How was The Colosseum built?
How many people could it hold?
What type of technology did The Colosseum have?
What type of entertainment was seen in The Colosseum?
Describe how Naval Battles happened for entertainment in The Colosseum.

12. Emperor Constantine Who was Constantine and what did he do to theater?
He was the first Christian Emperor
He outlawed theater, and it stayed against the law for almost 1000 years! From 300 A.D. to nearly 1300 A.D.!

13. Medieval Theater Medieval theater took place in the catholic church.
Morality plays
What is a morality play?
The most famous morality play was Everyman, written (we think) by a priest.

14. Renaissance Theater
The Renaissance (or rebirth) happened after the great Plague of Europe…where 1/3 of the population of Europe died…
After this there was more food for the remaining people and great wealth and prosperity allowing for the arts to flourish.

15. Elizabethan Theatre Elizabethan Theater
What are some of the things that happened for entertainment during Shakespeare’s time?
How did people feel about theater during this time?
Why did the theater’s close?
What was Shakespeare’s theater like?
Why did productions take place during the day?
How did the audience know where the play was taking place if there were no sets?
How did the theater owners publicize their plays?
What is a groundling?
Since women couldn’t act on stage, who did the women’s parts?
What about kissing?

16. My Boyfriend

17. 19th Century Theater
The 19th century is famous for Romantic Plays, Melodramas, Well Made Plays and the use of the Aside.
19th Century Theater
How did urbanization affect theater?
How was theater of the 19th century different from theater in Shakespeare’s time?
How did lighting change?
Why is this period known as “The age of Stars”?
What did people do before there was a director?

18. Modern Theater
In modern theater, anything goes!

19. Fin