Drama and action
March 27 is World Theatre Day. This is as good a time as any to get familiar with the history of theatre.
Performance or performing arts can be traced to the 6th Century B.C. where Ancient Greeks made dramatic presentations.
Much later, Greece was conquered by the Romans, who quickly adopted theatre. But the Romans preferred comedies to tragedies, which was the mainstay of Greek theatre.
The people on stage were a unit known as ‘chorus’. A man named Thespis decided to step out of this and he played a different character. He is known as the ‘Father of Theatre’.
By the 16th century, theatre became an art form. It was a time for great playwrights like Shakespeare and Marlowe to become popular. In 1599, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre was constructed.
In the 19th century, Romanticism became popular. Magical lands, cavaliers, Caribbeans and more came to be seen on stage.
Then came the age of realism.
Nowadays theatre is more technologically advanced and is diverse in its casting and genres that are performed.
People in the theatre are a superstitious lot. Here are six of them and how they could possibly have come about.