1. The Dramaturg
What is their job?

2. The Dramaturg What is their job? Advise the director on the literary
aspects or historical facts of the play.
Help select theatre’s repertoire.
Translate, adapt, and/or edit texts
Clarify and explain cultural, social, and political aspects of a given play.
Contribute to the content and design of posters, programs, press releases, and other interactions with the media.
Collaborate with the director in casting.
Advise designers
Work with playwrights
Provide a second set of eyes and ears for the director to help keep a production on track in rehearsal.

3. Greek Theatre 534?-400 BCE

4. Festival Dionysus
Dithyrambic Chorus

5. Thespis: First Actor, 534 BCE

6. Tragic Playwrights:
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripedes
Comic Playwright:
Aristophanes

7. Greek Performance:
Masks
Chorus
Ekkyklema

8. Greek Performance:
Periaktoi

9. Plan View of Theater at Epidaurus
Theatron – “the seeing place”
Orchestra
Paradoi
Skene
Ancient Greece

10. Aristotle: The Poetics, 335 BCE
Earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Topics:
Definition of Tragedy
Parts of Tragedy
Rules for construction of Tragedy

11. Roman Theatre BCE-568 AD

12. Comic Playwrights
Plautus
BCE
Terence
BCE

13. Tragic Playwright
Seneca
4 BCE-65 AD

14. Roman Republic Established 509 BCE
27 BCE Roman Empire Established

16. Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD
Scaenae frons
Ancient Rome

17. Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD
Ancient Rome

18. Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD
Ancient Rome

19. The Colosseum Rome, Italy
1st Century AD
Ancient Rome

20. The Colosseum Rome, Italy
1st Century AD
Ancient Rome

21. RIFT BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ROMAN THEATRE
393 AD. Any religion other than
Christianity outlawed in the Roman Empire
398 AD Christians excommunicated from
Church if they went to theatre instead of
Church on holy days
398 AD Actors forbidden church sacrements
Ancient Rome

22. RIFT BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ROMAN THEATRE. WHY?
Associated with pagan gods and festivals
Plays and practitioners offended church morals.
Theatre often ridiculed the church.
Ancient Rome

23. The Fall of the Roman Empire September 4, 476 AD
Ancient Rome

24. Medieval Drama – Mansions Western Europe
After 925 AD
Medieval Europe

25. Medieval Drama – Pageant Wagons Western Europe
1200 AD
Medieval Europe

26. Renaissance

27. Renaissance Drama Italy
Characters
Pantalone
Dottore
Capitano
Zanni

28. Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Italy
1580
Renaissance Italy

29. Theatre at Orange Orange, France 1st Century AD
Ancient Rome

30. Teatro Olimpico Vicenza, Italy
1580
Renaissance Italy

31. Teatro Farnese Parma, Italy
1618
Renaissance Italy

32. Renaissance in England 1500-1642
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Renaissance England

33. Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England
1599 – 1613 &
Renaissance England

34. Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England
1599 – 1613 &
Renaissance England

35. Globe Theatre (Shakespeare) London, England
1599 – 1613 &
Tiring House
Galleries
Inner Above
Stage
Inner Below
Pit
Renaissance England

36. (Staurt Court Masques)
Private Theatre
(Staurt Court Masques)
English Renaissance
Late 16th Century
Renaissance England

37. (Staurt Court Masques)
Private Theatre
(Staurt Court Masques)
English Renaissance
Late 16th Century
Renaissance England

38. 1642-1651 Roundheads vs. Royalists
English Civil War
Roundheads vs. Royalists
England

39. English Interregnum
Oliver Cromwell, England

40. Execution!
1649
King Charles I, England

41. English Interregnum
Oliver Cromwell, England

42. English Restoration
Charles II England

43. English Restoration
Drury Lane Theatre

44. English Restoration
Comedy of Manners

45. French Renaissance
Renaissance France

46. French Tennis Courts France
Mid 16th Century
Renaissance France

47. Only permanent theatre in Paris
Hôtel de Bourgogne
Only permanent theatre in Paris

48. Moliere
Jean Racine
Pierre Corneille

49. SPANISH RENAISSANCE
Renaissance Spain

50. Corral Theatre of Almagro Almagro, Spain
1628
Renaissance Spain

51. Modern Theatre

52. Influences Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Karl Marx: Das Kapital
Sigmund Freud: Interpretation of Dreams
Political and social unrest
Fragmentation of society

53. 5 Theatrical Movements in the Modern Era
Realism
Rejection of realism
Eclecticism
Continuation of Popular Theatre
Globalization

54. Realism Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Anton Chekhov
3 early realistic playwrights.

55. American Realism Eugene O’Neill Arthur Miller Tennessee Williams
3 later realistic playwrights from the US.

56. The New Stagecraft Edward Gordon Craig Adolphe Appia
Robert Edmond Jones

57. Eclectics

58. Popular Theatre