History of Theatre

In history, theater arts since long before recorded starting in 500 BC. At first, Theatre only acted as a religious ritual thousands of years before Christ. Some ancient peoples who had advanced civilizations, like the Mayans in South America, Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Central Asia, and China, using a form of theater as a way to connect with the Almighty. Usually the mastermind of the whole ritual is a shaman or high priest.

Recorded history, theater arts serves only as a ritual (religious), but also function as art or entertainment. Theater event that requires togetherness, when, and where, remains a key requirement theater attendance since thousands of years before Christ, so that in the days of Greek theater was always present with similar requirements. Based on these explanations, it can be concluded that something can be called a theater if there is unity of the three forces, such as: the theater, the place, and the community (the audience). Three forces are met and delivery is synergy and childbirth "theatrical event".

In the history, the art of theater in ancient Greece known as the time of the convention instituting Theatre who still have influence today. Spells that originally only spoken and not written, take a written script, while prayers metamorphose into the story or play. Greek playwright studies bring figures, such as Aeschylus (525-456 BC), Sophocles (496-406 BC), Euripides (480-406 BC), and Aristophanes (about 400 BC). They are the ancestors of the father plays the researchers.

In the subsequent development of theater art history, religious ceremonies emphasize the storytelling. A group of people moving paraded a goat that has been dressed up with a variety of jewelry. They led offerings that surround the market or the highway accompanied by the sound of drums, flutes, and other noises. The convoy slowed, or stopped if the audience increased to allow the narrator (storyteller) who tells of an event. The narrator tells the audience one god-lined in the street or stand surrounded him.