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The ancient greeks had the first recorded play in 3000 B.C.
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The Ancient Greeks had an anual play about Dionysis. He was the god of Wine, Theater and Parties!!
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The Greeks invented comedy and tragedy and wore masks and women under no circumstances were alowed to be an actress.
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When rome took over the greeks in 216 B.C. they took the theater back to rome and created their own version.
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When Rome took the theater into their own hands they made it more violent and with the rise of Chistianity theater was frowned apon
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The Christians odered the people to shut down theater because the theater made fun of their religon.
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One of the only reasons that the church allowed plays was because most people could not read or write so they could not read the bible. So they allowed plays so people could learn about their religion.
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The Chriistians found out that they could make plays of the bible. And one of the first recorded plays by the Christian church was the resuretion of Jeuses.
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Queen Elizibeth the First approved of theater and paid people like William Shakespeare to write plays.
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Shakespeare was acutally born into a very poor family and only got famous from Queen Elizebeth
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Hamlet, Midsummers Nights Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet. These are some of the most famous plays by Shakespeare.
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Traveling performers went all over Europe spreading different theater styles.
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The changes in the building made it so they looked more like the theater today because back then they raised the theater so more people could see.
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In 1660 the first women were allowed on stage. Some of the most well known Elizebeth Barry, Anne Bracegirdle and Isabella Andreini. Before then young boys were used to play the womens role. Yes that means the first Juliet was a boy.
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From 1740 to the 1800s theater catered to wealthier people.
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In the 1820 more working clase people started going to the theater and spiecial effects and variety shows.
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One of my favorite plays in 2006 they made In the Heights by Lin Manuel Miranda. And this is one of the first musicals with rapping instead of singing and that just show the change in modern theater.
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There really isn't any rule of what can be played now. It can be from Romeo and Juliet to Rapping instead of music. Really there are no rules for theater!
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Sometimes like at lent a town would throw a 40 day play! To celebrate lent. They would change actors every day and they would have many different scenes going on at once. For exemple they would have Judis betraying Jeuses at one place and Peter denying Jeuses in another.
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I predict that theater will be entertaining us long into the future and possibley forever!
