my 1st exposure!
Learning drama is interesting for me. I’m eager to learn what drama actually is. As for the first time I learn about ‘Overview of the History of Theatre’, I’m impressed with how the drama revolves through the time. Before this, I always want to know where theatre came from. Now I know that it’s first appearance was in Greek and it is Greek theatre that gives big impact to the next eras of theatre. I also learned that how amazing, creative and innovative the old days people were as they build the place of performance surrounded by the hill. Wow! That’s really unique! I hope that one day I can visit those historical places.
Furthermore, I really cannot imagine that there was no actress during those times. The young men played all the women’s part. How funny it was! It showed that how suppress the women those time. I’m glad that I was not born during those time.
I also find out that theatre was not only for entertainment but it has other underlying message within it. As for the Greek people, they tend to have theatre as celebration after harvest festival. This is in order to promote culture and to enhance the audience knowledge on human activity. Besides that drama does also show the audience the reality in true life such as moral values, human’s behaviour and attitudes. Normally it can be found in the Medieval Theatre.
posted by inafarhana @ 8:49:00 PM
2 Comments:
ina...i also impressed by the way the peformance place was build during that era.it was such a huge place and each of it was build in a different design and have its own speacilty.i wonder how they managed to build it...another matter that i be in a same opinion with you is that how women being suppressed.it means that gender issues is not a recently matter but it did happened since thousand and thousand years ago...i just cant imagine how my life would be living in that kind of situation.drama really brings a lot of meanings and it absolutely presents the reality of life.
I also found that the overview of the theatre history impress me very much about how the theater revolve through out time. I was shocked when I learned about during the Elizabethan era; women were not allowed to act on the stage with the men. Therefore, young adult men would wear female masks to act as women role. This gender issue is face by women around the globe in the past as well as today’s world. The structures of the theatre also impress me too. People in those days could build the huge amphitheatres without any modern technologies. Besides, I also have the same dream as you. I wish one day I will be able to visit to these places to see the real theatre in Greek and to understand the culture over in Greek rather than just read about them in book nad hear from other people. I feel as a literature teacher, we need to visit all these sight. So, next time when I teach we can tell our students those places, thus making the class more interesting.
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