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because people from the back were telling them what they were saying
Brechtian theatre is an abstract form of theatre. Its main feature consists of breaking that boundary between actors on stage and the audience watching. Generally, the actors will enter and/or exit from the audience and pose socio-cultural issues that will make the audience member ask themselves a sub-conscious question about the issue. Shakespearean and Greek theatre is somewhat your stock standard form of theatre.
In the greek theatre they wore brightclothes to show that they played a comedy, and dark clothes to show they played a tragedy. they spoke really loudly so everyone could hear them, because there was over a thousand audience.
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The purpose of masks in Greek theatre was so that the audience could see the characters' faces from far away. The masks represented characters from history and mythology, who would be familiar to the audience.
They would be costumed as a male or female
because people from the back were telling them what they were saying
In a modern theatre the audience sits opposite to the stage. In the globe the audience sits (partly) around the stage, in the manner of the ancient Greek theatres.
Brechtian theatre is an abstract form of theatre. Its main feature consists of breaking that boundary between actors on stage and the audience watching. Generally, the actors will enter and/or exit from the audience and pose socio-cultural issues that will make the audience member ask themselves a sub-conscious question about the issue. Shakespearean and Greek theatre is somewhat your stock standard form of theatre.
Brechtian theatre is an abstract form of theatre. Its main feature consists of breaking that boundary between actors on stage and the audience watching. Generally, the actors will enter and/or exit from the audience and pose socio-cultural issues that will make the audience member ask themselves a sub-conscious question about the issue. Shakespearean and Greek theatre is somewhat your stock standard form of theatre.
The semi circle theatres provided better view and acoustics for the audience.
In the greek theatre they wore brightclothes to show that they played a comedy, and dark clothes to show they played a tragedy. they spoke really loudly so everyone could hear them, because there was over a thousand audience.
Greek theatre was part of a religious festival for a god (s). It originally was people singing and dancing around an altar in a forest glade. It developed into a theatre with an altar centrepiece and three actors with a chorus singing and dancing a play, witnessed by an audience seated around on bleachers..
Where the acting is realistic enough to be understood by the audience, but where the emotions and gestures of the actors are exaggerated. Like in Ancient Greek Theatre.