theatre history

  • 400 BCE

    periaktoi

    tall, three sided forms that rotated on a central pivot
    each side was painted a different scene
  • 476

    fall of rome

    decline of the roman empire
    theatres were abandoned
  • 1501

    a play staged at Mons

    technicians hired to construct secrets
  • 1545

    treatise

    sebastiano serlio recommended "placing candles and torches behind flask with amber- and blue-colored water"
  • Period: 1580 to

    the teatro olimpico in vicenza

    designed in style of ancient roman theatres
  • Period: to

    globe

    william shakespeare's home theatre
  • theatres

    theatres
    theatres just outside london had been constucted
  • argang oil lamp

    produces more light
    wick enclosed in glass