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DIFFERENT KIND OF THEATER
Name: LiamGrade: 9-2
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ATHENIAN THEATER
- The plays had a chorus of up to 50 people
- The theaters were originally built on a very large scale to accommodate the large number of people on stage, as well as the large number of people in the audience, up to fourteen thousand.
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MEDIEVAL THEATER
- It could fit many people in order to watch the theater because the audience have to stand to watch (Free Stand)
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ELIZABETHAN THEATER
- The theater could hold 1500 people and this number expanded to 3000 with the people who crowded outside the theater.
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THRUST THEATER
- Thrust Theater is surrounded by audience on three sides. The fourth side serves as the background.
In a typical modern arrangement: the stage is often a square or rectangular playing area, usually raised, surrounded by raked
seating.
- Thrust Theater can seat up to 325 people
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PROSCENIUM THEATER
- A proscenium theatre is what we usually think of as a “theatre”. It’s primary feature, is the Proscenium, a “picture frame” placed around the
front of the playing area of an stage.
The frame is the proscenium; the wings are spaces on either side, extending off-stage. Scenery surrounds the acting area on alls ides except audience, who
watch the play through frame opening. “ Backstage” is any space around the acting area out of sight of the audience.
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- http://www.ia470.com/primer/theatres.htm
- http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd130et/medieval.htm
http://anarchon.tripod.com/indexGREEKTH.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_stage
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