2. Outline:
to define “theatre” as a notion;
to follow the history of the theatre development;
“components” of theatre

3. Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance.

4. The development of “theatre”
Athens, in honour of Dionysus (the god of wine and fertility).
The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play containing mythological or historical plots.
At those times only men performed roles in big masks. (There were only 2 actors on the stage, the third was proposed by Sophocles).
No decorations
Women weren’t allowed to the theatre, especially to see comedies, if they were, they sat apart.

5. Popular dramatists (playwrights) of those times:
In Greece to be an actor was considered prestigious whereas in Rome – disgraceful
Popular dramatists (playwrights) of those times:
Aeschylus (Эсхил), Sophocles (Софокл), and Euripides (Еврипид), they are creators of Greek tragedy. Aristophanes (Аристофан) is a creator of comedy as a genre.
In Rome Plautus and Seneca are worth mentioning, they verbally eleborated Euripidies‘s tragedies to the high-style.

7. The Medieval Theatre
emerged in X-XI centuries in Latin tradition, not as the continuation of the antique drama.
covered a wide variety of genres and subject matter (morality plays, farces, masques and drama)
provides few surviving records of Medieval plays due to the low literacy rate of the general population
churches began to stage dramatized versions of important biblical events
An important playwright was Hrotsvit
Other Medieval performances included mimes, minstrels (уличные поеты), storytellers and jugglers who traveled in search of employment
Liturgical dramas spread across Europe and Russia throughout that period

8. An actor (alternatively actress for a female; is a person portraying a character in a dramatic or comic production; she or he performs in: film, television, theatre, or radio.
According to the actor’s performing people differ such kinds of theatre as:
theatre of the absurd
Ballet
drama theatre
Puppy theatre
Musical
Opera
Operetta
Pantomime

9. Golden age theatre from 1590 to 1681
In Renaissance Spain (both highly sponsored by the aristocratic class and highly attended by the lower classes)
a large number of the 10,000 to 30,000 plays of this period are still considered masterpieces.
Spanish Golden Age theatre has dramatically influenced the theatre of later generations in Europe and throughout the world. Spanish drama had an immediate and significant impact on the contemporary developments in English Renaissance theatre.

10. The theatre in Shakespeare’s time
was much different
authors wrote plays for the masses,especially 
those who couldn’t read or write.
 a bad influence on people and kept them from going to church
 Queen Elizabeth, on the other hand, loved acting and helped the theatre become popular.
popular theatres emerged outside city walls, it was an unsafe area with crime and murder
almost no scenery, the dialogue was the most important part of the play
 Colourful and well-designed costumes
Women never performed in plays, so young boys played female characters
no stage crew as there is today. Actors had to do everything themselves - from making costumes to setting the stage.

11. Elizabethan theatre

12. The Reconstructed Globe Theatre in London

13. Thanks for your attention!!!
Hometask: to prepare reports on the topics:
Modern Theatre
The role of theatre in people‘s life
The Globe Theatre
People and their duties in the theatre (crew, director, etc.)
Theatre of the absurd
Ballet
Drama theatre
Puppy theatre
Musical
Opera
Operetta
12. Pantomime
13. Inside the theatre (stage, stalls, etc.)