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Theatre Traditions: East and West

Theatre Traditions: East and West. Chapter 7 Cohen, THEATRE (Brief edition). Theatre exists in the present, but is deeply rooted in its past. Many plays seen today are revivals. Contemporary theatre artists are compared to their predecessors. Some ancient plays adapt to modern times.

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Theatre Traditions: East and West

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  1. Theatre Traditions:East and West Chapter 7Cohen, THEATRE (Brief edition)

  2. Theatre exists in the present, but is deeply rooted in its past

  3. Many plays seen today are revivals

  4. Contemporary theatre artists are compared to their predecessors

  5. Some ancient plays adapt to modern times

  6. Many of the world’s great plays are closely based upon preceding ones

  7. Origins of Theatre in African Tribal Groups

  8. Origins of Theatre in African Tribal Groups

  9. Rituals are collective ceremonies

  10. The storyteller

  11. Storytelling requires an audience

  12. Storytelling involves character impersonation

  13. In Animism SHAMANS are guides to the spiritual world

  14. Mediums are examples of spiritual guides like Shamans

  15. A Bundu Devil Dancer

  16. Traditional drama seems to have its earliest expressions in Ancient Egypt

  17. Abydos Passion Play

  18. Associated with rites of burial

  19. Egyptian ceremonies and rites date as far back as 2500 BC The Abydos procession to the Nile was not unlike a modern parade

  20. Other rites appeared in Babylonia and other locations in the Middle East but did not flourish.

  21. The next wave of development occurred in Attica (Greece).

  22. 5th Century Athens stands as one of the great ages of theatre

  23. Attic rites developed both tragedy and comedy

  24. Evidence exists in mosaics and vases from the period A dithyrambic chorus

  25. Attic rites honored the God of fertility, harvest and wine Dionysus

  26. City Dionysia held in Athens in theatre at base of Acropolis

  27. Model of Theatre Dionysia

  28. Artists reconstruction of Greek Theatre at its height

  29. Aeschylus 524 – 456 BC The Persians Seven Against Thebes The Suppliants The Oresteia Agamemnon The Libation Bearers The Eumenides Prometheus Bound

  30. Sophocles (497-406 BC) Oedipus Rex and Antigone

  31. Euripides 480-406 BC Alcestis Electra The Bacchae Trojan Women

  32. Greek masks and musicians

  33. Greek masks and chorus

  34. The satyr play

  35. Aristophanes (447-388 BC) The Birds (pictured), The Clouds, Lysistrata

  36. Greek Comedy

  37. Theatre at Epidaurus

  38. Greek costumes

  39. Onkos Himation, Chlamys kothurnoi

  40. A Greek Chorus

  41. Greek drama introduced... • Tragedy and comedy • Conventions in costume • The third actor • Skene (elevated stage) • Choral singing • Stock characters • Trilogy • Satyr (parody)

  42. Roman Drama Terence Plautus

  43. Roman Theatre

  44. Roman theatre in Syria

  45. Medieval Drama After the fall of Rome, theatrical activity in the West was brought to an end. It re-emerged in the 10th century with QUEM QUERITAS

  46. By 1250, Bible-based dramas (Mystery Plays) were common in Europe

  47. Mystery cycles were staged by guilds in European cities York Wakefield

  48. Pagaent wagons Logo for York Mystery Playtoday

  49. Valenciennes Mansion Stage

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