Greek theatre (550-220bc)

Greek theatre flourished between 550 - 220 BC. In centralised in the city of athens which also became a huge political cultural and military influence during since time. Greek theatre consisted of three types of play;

• Satyr plays. (tragicomedys)
• Comedys.
• Tragedies.

Satyr plays were much like tragedies in the respec that they were based on epic or mythology and the action was tragic but they were portrayed in a humourous way to combine elements of greek tragedy aswell as comedys. These plays origionated from the called the Dionysia , which honoured the god Dionysus, the festival would start with the sacrafice of a goat. During this festival the citizens of greece would watch greek tragedys writen by famous play writes of this time such as Thespis and Sophocles for example the play Antigone was a very famous greek tragedy writen by sophocles. The festival would last 5 days. 
the festival required each playwrite to submit three tragedies and one satyr play.

Greek tragedies also derived from the festival of dionysia and there was three main playwrite each performing there three tragedy plays and on satyr plays each on a consecutive day. the playwrites were  Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. in these plays the actors would all be male and would all where large masks so there expressions could be seen by everyone in the audience as the theatres were very large (sometimes the actors would even be on stilts to make themselves look larger). the plays involved a chorus of people which sung there respones to the actors and this is where the word (chour) derived from.

Greek comedys,

This is a digram of the layout of the greek theatre, they were many placed on the top of a hill and all greek citizens (even women) would be allowed to attend the plays.