{"id":33,"date":"2010-09-19T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/09\/19\/basic-information-of-the-ancient-greek-theatre\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T00:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:21:57","slug":"basic-information-of-the-ancient-greek-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/2010\/09\/19\/basic-information-of-the-ancient-greek-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Information of the Ancient Greek Theatre – Masato"},"content":{"rendered":"

Costume: All the actors were men. When they were playing female roles, they wore the prosternida (prosterneda), an imitation of a woman's breast, and the progastrida (progastreda), an imitation of a woman's belly.Sound: The chorus performed a choreographed dance, and either sung or chanted its lines.Sound: The chorus was a group of 12 to 15 men.Sound: The chorus also had a rhythmical function; by using pauses, they controlled the pace of the play and gave time for the audience to reflect.Spectacle: The plays were performed out-door, usually by a mountain which has been shaved into a bowl shape for amplification.Spectacle: The chorus will perform on the Orchestra, a circular pit in front of the Skene.Spectacle: The Skene is a building that is set in the back of the stage, which functioned as a background as well as a backstage. They were decorated differently depending on the context of the play.Costume: Actors wore wooden, cork or linen masks for vocal projection and character distinction.Spectacle: In order to communicate with a large audience, the actors had to use huge gestures when acting.Costume: The actor would make himself look taller by wearing tall wooden sandals Cothurnis.Sound: The chorus' chants and singing were accompanied by flutes, lyres, horns, drums and bells.Spectacle: Staging was done by using Pinakes, scenery painted on boards and placed against the Skene.Sound: Drums were used to represent the sound of thunder.Spectacle: All killings had to occur off-stage and be reported by a third person. The bodies were delivered to the stage on a small wheeled car called the Eccyclema.Spectacle: The Deus-Ex-Machina is a crane-like device used for lowering or lifting actors to represent the intervention of gods.Sources Cited:http:\/\/www.greektheatre.gr\/<\/a><\/a>http:\/\/www.richeast.org\/htwm\/Greeks\/theatre\/Theatre.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Costume: All the actors were men. When they were playing female roles, they wore the prosternida (prosterneda), an imitation of a woman's breast, and the progastrida (progastreda), an imitation of a woman's belly.Sound: The chorus performed a choreographed dance, and either sung or chanted its lines.Sound: The chorus was a group of 12 to 15 … Continue reading Basic Information of the Ancient Greek Theatre – Masato<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1250],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arisotle-musicsound-spectacle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis_2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}