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Clerics began acting out dramatic scenes from the bible and biblical knowledge to help people understand and comprehend their lessons and teachings.
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The productions put on by the church were reviving the theater and people came to see them, but soon these plays became more and more complex and they could no longer fit inside the church. So, they were moved outside.
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During a play that was staged in a southwestern city in Belgium the producer hired technicians to operate the secrets, or stage machinery involving trapdoors, rigging, and painted scenery. Seventeen people were hired to work this overcomplicated technology.
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A man named Sebastiano Serlio was the first to try putting amber and blue colored water in front of clear containers of water.
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The Teatro Olympico was a theater built in Vicenza, Italy. It was a theater that corresponded with the Greek and Roman theater styles which contained the architectural writings of Vitruvius. It was specifically designed like the Ancient Roman theaters. This theater is significant because it was moved indoors and instead of having a complete semicircle for seating its seating consisted of Eclipse seating
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The home theater of William Shakespeare.
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Around the 1600s the theaters in England were building more rapidly, but they took on a different structure. Thus began the rise of the Elizabethan theaters.
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This was the time that those in the theater started using reflectors to gain better lighting in the theater's. Up until now the only lighting they used was for the bare minimum of seeing. Around this time theaters began to put footlamps around the edge of the stage and vertical rows of lamps in the wings.
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During this time period there were no significant advancements in stage lighting. Oil Lamps and Candles were the only light source and were placed in areas where the stage could get the most light (ex: footlights, overhead chandeliers, and wings).
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The architectural style of theaters and the style of scenery that was used was generalized and standardized through most of Europe and England.
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The government gave permission for Kabuki troupes to build indoor roofed theatres.
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New Elevator Traps were being introduced.
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Shortly after the Elevator Traps,They developed Elevator Stages.
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Kabuki theaters started using revolving stages in their theater productions. This was used to shift scenery.
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The arang oil lamp was introduced,with a cylindrical wick that was enclosed in a glass chimney. It improved with brighter,whiter lighting, and cleaner light.
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During this time a Scottish Engineer named William Murdock discovered a way to take gas out of coal, and thus began the rise of gas lighting. Gas burned brighter and cleaner; this was exactly what the theaters had needed.
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The revolution in the style of theatre began in the late 1800's
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Thomas Drummond created limelight when a sharp jet of flames is focused against the block of limestone. Limestone produces Really bright and soft light. When coupled infront of a mirror reflector, the light was so bright it lit up the whole stage.
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A more complex type of revolving stages.
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By this time the Paris Opera developed a projector, a follow spot, and they started utilizing carbon arc for special effects.
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These lamps were the next great advancements in Theater Lighting. It occured throughout Europe and North America.
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Almost all of Europe's and north america's theatres coverted over to using electricity.
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The first major technological development meant in stage lighting of the twentieth century resulted from refinements to the incandescent lamp that significantly increased the lamps brightness and longevity.
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The little theatre movement of the 1920's through 1930's was an effort to establish quality productions outside of new york city. It also gave new playwrights a chance to improve their crafts.
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Sound effects and music was the central part of theater and had been since the Greeks. Until the 1930s when record players were invented all music was played live.
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George Izenour invented the first thyratron tube dimmer. This was the first remote control dimmer that was invented. This was supplanted by digital control in the 80s
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The development of the tape recorder, high fidelity sound, and stereo sound was all invented in this time period. Digital storage, replay, and recording devices came later in the 80s.
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This lamp produced whiter light and its life was 10 to 20 times longer than that of those before it.
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These produced even whiter light than before and it was less susceptible to heat fracture.