Greek Theatre Fall 2024 PDF

Introduction to Greek Theatre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41fSuyMUkE  Greek Theatre Masked actors No violence onstage – All violence described in detail by messenger Part of theatre festivals Verse and prose spoken Mythology “Golden Age of Greek Theatre...

Introduction to Greek Theatre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41fSuyMUkE  Greek Theatre Masked actors No violence onstage – All violence described in detail by messenger Part of theatre festivals Verse and prose spoken Mythology “Golden Age of Greek Theatre”-5th century BCE  National Theatre on Greek Theatre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSRLK7SogvE Parts of the theatre orchestra stage area usually flat chorus used it for singing and dancing altar in center theatron seating for the audience hillside skene stagehouse behind orchestra opposite theatron entrances and exits parodos pathways for actors and chorus to make exits and entrances  masks Ancient Greek plays 3 main masked actors masks age gender social status  Greek Chorus masked group (ancient Greece) sang and danced engaged in dialogue w/ characters commented on the events  Oedipus Rex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_L_jzb8yiM  Greek Playwrights Aristophanes Euripides Sophocles Aeschylus  The Frogs Aristophanes The Clouds “The Father of Comedy” The Birds Lysistrata Earliest surviving comic plays parodies mocked politicians/leaders raunchy jokes songs fantastical themes/settings influenced by wars Lysistrata women start a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian War (Athens/Sparta) https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=aFnOgBKTCYc Lysistrata Jones https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=r48eG3PtVNM The Birds synopsis https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=2ByTCRBMmSk Greek Tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSr6mP-zxUc catharsis: the vicarious cleansing of emotions (sadness, pity, or fear) in the audience through actors on the stage effect of a tragedy  The Oresteia (trilogy) Aeschylus Agamemnon “Father of Greek The Libation Tragedy” Bearers The Eumenides  Medea Euripides The Trojan Greek Tragedian Playwright Women The Bacchae Medea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPG VzLFrT_A https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=272 713297881206  Theban plays: Oedipus Rex Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Antigone https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=r1-tMzk9cMg https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=HH002u0DRJ8 Modern Greek Theatre Usually no masks Females actors perform More than three actors Any time period Greek Chorus Modern: :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quLkooLxsO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlXi8LfKv-0