Greek Theatre!!!!!

1. The Greeks performed dramas called tragedies and comedies. A tragedy was a serious drama that usually ended with a main character or hero dying. Tragedies had themes like love, hate, war, or betrayal. The hero of the story usually had something special about them, like supernatural powers, and died from their own tragic flaw. Tragic flaw is a character defect that leads to the death of the hero. The three main Greeks that wrote these tragedies were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. A comedy was filled with slapstick situations and crude humor. The Greeks who wrote comedies usually made fun of politics, respected people, and ideas of the time through their play. Athenians could listen to criticism of themselves in these comedies, which shows how the freedom of public discussion and speech existed at that time. Aristophanes was the first playwright to write comedies.

2. Last year I did a production of the Wizard of Oz at my old school. My production resembled ancient Greek productions because they both used costumes, sets, and masks to bring their stories to life. Both ancient Greece productions and my production had singing and dancing. My production was most like an ancient Greek comedy because it had humor and some slapstick situations. Like ancient Greek productions, the production I did had multiple themes and lesson it was trying the teach the audience. Ancient Greek productions and my productions are similar because the origin of present-day theatre comes from the Greeks.

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This picture shows the Great Theatre of Epidaurus. The theatre was first built in 340 B.C. by the architect Polykleitos the Younger, from Argos. Plays can still be seen there today because of how well it was built and it's amazing acoustics. It is known as the most preserved theatre from ancient Greece. It has a capacity of 13,000 spectators, and is split into two parts to separate citizens from priests and rulers.