| Types of Theatre and their affect | | | | apron stage. The apron stage had a rectangular |
| Types of Theatre and their affect | | | | platform with nearly an audience of 2,000 surrounding |
| The history of theatre arts can be dated back to as | | | | the three sides of it and was in close proximity with |
| early as the period of ancient Greek.Visit here now | | | | the actors performing on stage. With the wealthy |
| Since then the various eras witnessed changes in | | | | aristocrats funding the plays the costumes were |
| the types of theatre stages, which affected the actors | | | | designed with more details and were elegant. Plays |
| and also gave rise to different forms of acting. | | | | were enacted at daytime which made the creation of |
| In ancient Greece, plays were staged to mark a | | | | illusion of nighttime difficult which was overcome by |
| religious occasion in theatres where only prestigious | | | | dispatching the information as a part of an actor's |
| men were allowed as at that time women and slaves | | | | dialogue which is termed as word scenery. Denizens |
| were looked down upon in the society. Theatres | | | | from all sects of the society attended these plays so |
| popularly known as amphitheatres housed a large | | | | an effort was made to please a large array of |
| round stage which was encircled three-fourth by | | | | spectators by taking different storylines into |
| audience. This is how a stage would be set in the | | | | consideration. |
| Greek Era. Amphitheatre could accommodate an | | | | The period around the seventeenth and eighteenth |
| audience of 25,000 at a time which made it very | | | | century was known as the Restoration period. The |
| difficult to see what's going on for the audience at the | | | | theatres around this time were smaller than those of |
| back. To overcome this obstruction the actors would | | | | the Renaissance period and held up to 500 spectators |
| be loud with grandiose voice and enormous gestures | | | | at a time. This period gave an end to daylight lit |
| and to be more noticeable wore mask and symbolical | | | | auditoriums replacing them with closed rooms lit |
| attires. High pitched chorus was used to as a means | | | | completely with man-made light. Stages were bounded |
| of cautioning of an upcoming event or to advice | | | | with decorated frames but with no curtains like the |
| co-actors. To improve the visibility and to give a | | | | modern times. Although the audiences weren't in |
| deception of reality to the plays they were held in | | | | close vicinity of the stage, a small stage protruded into |
| daylight and a real landscape acted as the background | | | | the auditorium so as to increase the interaction |
| of the play. | | | | between the audience and the actors. Lack of curtain |
| In the medieval era facilities were more commonly | | | | hindered the privacy of changing of scenes which |
| available to many of the inhabitants of the community. | | | | affected the realistic illusion. Performances by the |
| Theatres too were no longer reserved for the rich. | | | | restoration period were character driven with more |
| Plays were held on wagons better known as | | | | emphasis on the perfectionism, social issues, and |
| pageants. The wagon would be dragged into the | | | | scenery. |
| marketplace where the play was decided to be held. | | | | The stage in the later centuries evolved into what is |
| Spectators would surround the stage from all sides | | | | known as the proscenium stage or picture frame |
| and would watch the play. The themes of most of the | | | | stage. It's designed and named after the technique of |
| plays at that time were the daily happenings and day | | | | how one visualizes a picture. There is a defined |
| to day experiences depicted as an ironic comedy or | | | | separation between the spectators and the actors |
| as a genuine mime depending on the taste of the | | | | with the introduction of ramp. Curtains added to this |
| audience. This created an interaction between the | | | | and the same time gave privacy to change scenes |
| audience and the actors with the audience expressing | | | | thus creating a realistic and elaborated picturization. |
| their views on the theme. | | | | The auditorium is darkened during the performance |
| During the Renaissance Period theatre performance | | | | there by increasing the concentration of the audience. |
| took the form of professional performance more than | | | | Modern technologies and aids have made illustration |
| an artistic one. The blueblood of England started | | | | more interesting and realistic and made the art even |
| investing into performing groups and theatres with an | | | | more interesting and popular. |