Dionysus Research Paper

Introduction

Greek theatre begun from worshiping their beloved god. Dionysus is a god who was worshiped with a festival called “city Dionysian”. During the festival, in Athens, men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus and plays were only performed at city Dionysian festival. Athens was basically where the Greek theatre has started then has spread out through Greece. During the early Greek theatres the actors, directors, and dramatists were all the same person. Sometime later only three actors were allowed on stage in each play. Later on there were a few non speaking roles that were able to perform on stage.

Dionysian festival

This picture shows how they celebrated the Dionysus festival and how she was worshipped in 600ce. Although the

Tragedy and comedy were shown as a complete opposite parts of the theatrical form. Satyr distributes with the mythology content in comic manner.

Tragedy plays

Thespis is an idea as to be the first Greek actor (director) and originator of tragedy, which meant “goat song” or comparing goats sacrifice to Dionysus before performances. His importance was realised and Thespis was sometimes listed as late as the 1600s in the chronological order of Greek tragedians.

Aristotle’s poems contained the earliest known of Greek theatre. he said that tragedy grew away from wildly speeches and sung songs in praise at the Dionysia to Dionysus each year.

Comedy plays

Comedy is also plays an important part of ancient Greek theatre. Comedy plays were a result from imitation although there are no traces of its origin. Aristophanes wrote most of the comedy plays and out of the 11 plays, survived- Lysistrata which was a humorous tale about a strong woman who leads a female coalition to end was in Greece. This play is a classic and is now being sold as comics which is good source for children in the nowadays.

The Greek

The skene is a rectangular building that had been placed behind the orchestra and used as a backstage. The actors and actresses would be able to change their costumes and masks. Earlier before backstage were huts of tents but later became a permanent stone structure.

3. The audience sat on a rising circle from the orchestra. The theatres were built on a very large gauge to lodge the large number of people in the audience and could be up to fourteen thousand people attending. Greek theatres

This image demonstrates how the ancient Greek theatres looked like and how they were displayed or used and the large scale it was put on to fit large amounts of people like the whole town.

*Internet encyclopedia. ©, Greek theatre. 14/11,2015, http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia_of_history/G/Greek_theatre.html

Acting

Casts of Greek plays were all men because they used to be classified as the higher class resident. The casts of the Greek plays were not professionals and the plays were encompassed of unprofessional men.

The Greek actors had to gesture magnificently so the entire audience could see their story as to a more detailed story(our actions speak louder than our words). Although most Greek theatres were constructed to convey even the smallest sound to and seat amongst the