Theatre

Timeline
 • Tragedy, comedy and satyr
plays.
• Used techniques such as
Synchronization, echoing and
Ancient Greek ripples to help people know
Theatre what was happening on the
stage due to large theatre
500BC sizes.
 • It had Elements of violence
that contrasted the Greek
style, but it did have elements
of tragedy and comedy.

Roman Theatre • Used mime which was comical

and also pantomime which
240BC were soloists with a choral
ensemble, often for a tragic
myth.
 • Had three main types :
miracle, mystery and morality
and was exaggerated and
heroic.
Medieval • Often based around an
Theatre occasion like a festival,
religious event or something
Middle Ages important to a specific town
or city.
 • It was mainly tragedy or
comedy biased.
• There was a main focus on
cultural and also classical
Renaissance themes.
Theatre • The actors were professional
and all men. Due to the small
15th Century spacing all performances had
an intimate feel.
 • It was poetic and dramatic.
• Normally performed in
daylight with movements and
gestures that has been
Elizabethan stylized.
Theatre • They used aside, prologue and
epilogue to connect the
1600’s characters and audience.
 • It emerged during the
romantic era.
• It tended to be exaggerated
and it used uses stereotypical
Melodrama characters such as villains,
heroes, wronged maidens and
1800’s was often emotive.
 • It had characters that were
Realistic, truthful and it also
used an actual timespan.
• Is a form of realism meaning
that it showed real life
Naturalism through fiction.
1880’s • Used dark themes : poverty,
prejudice and disease.
 • It had audience interaction,
ironic acting and it addressed
social / political issues.
• It uses the alienation effect
Epic Theatre (used to create an artificial
feeling to stop the audience
1920’s getting lost in the
performance).
 • Surrealistic theatre has an
inhuman aspect and focuses
on the more metaphorical
aspects of performing.

Surrealism • The characters tended to not

seam whole.
1920’s (Paris) • Productions were often
confusing and were often
biased on other people's
interpretations.
 • It focused on themes such as
abuse or embarrassment.
• It tended to obscene and it
also approached topics that
In Yer Face went against societal
Theatre expectations.
• Its focus was to shock and
1990’s unnerve its audience.
 • It is usually biased from what
someone has actually said.
• Actors may even attempt to
imitate the person who they
Verbatim are playing and copy how
Theatre they behave.
• However, it is rarely biased of
21st Century off very important statements.