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Period: 1650 BCE to 1900 BCE
1650-1900
Interest in visual effects and spectacles began and Italy in the mid-1500. During the next hundred years, it moved northward to Europe. The background was painted in perspective on moveable borders, drops, and wings. Theatere had stocks of backgrounds if they didn't have a particular set they would substitute for another. a lot of advances were made in Japanese Kabuki theatres. -
300
Greek Theater
The knowledge that we know on theater is strictly off of archaeologist studies and guessing. There was no single type or style but there was different elements that contributed. A steeply raked seating theatron was called theatron. Another piece is the skene which is behind the orchestra it's used as the stage house. Another element is the paraskenia it's two long high walls that extend on either sides parallel to the skene. But the most interesting is a basket platform known as the machina. -
410
Roman Theatre
The roman theatres were mostly modified Greek theatres. They had one major exception they had a roof because they were built on flat land and not into a hill like the greek predecessor. The roofs were extended between the scene fons and the edge of the proscenium. Another difference is that the scene orchestra and auditorium were remade into one structure. Elevators were used in a lot of theatres like the most famous one the Colosseum. They were to move actors props and sometimes animals. -
1200
Medieval Theatre
Most performances were too complex to stage inside of the churches, so they were moved outdoors. Platform stages were generally across from the church so that the audience would in hopes be moved by the production and join the church. Occasionally, these platform stages were mounted on wagons, making them pageant wagons, which were pulled from town to town to perform the plays. The sets were composed of small buildings that depicted locations appropriate to the bible stories. -
1500
1500-1650
With the Renaissance, the theatre became a central part of the cultural reawakening that spread through Europe. The basic shape of these theatres corresponded with the description of Greek and Roman theatres contained in the architectural writings of Vitruvius. The biggest change was probably the fact that theatres were moved completely indoors and enclosed. -
Twentieth Century
The revolution of theater began in the 1800s and continued to the twentieth century. It started to take a different turn from the declamatory style of early theater. Production becoming more realistic the shape of theaters started to change to support the new form. The Théâtre Libre, founded by André Antoine in Paris, and the Moscow Art Theatre, founded by Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemerovich- Danchenko, were but two of the leading groups in this movement.
