The Theater

The Theater was born with the humanity. It can to considerate like the first theatrical expressions: the rituals dances of the prehistory, the collective dances, the ceremonies associate to the harvest and hunting. In it used masks, make up and other recourses according to purpose.

But the theater, just as it knows at the present time, it was started in the old Greece about around the year 600 B.C, where it was organized feasts in honor to the god Dionisio, god of the life and joy. In this feasts, the actors and the choirs did perform the epic legend (the famous tragedies greeks), with more recourses of oratory on stage and nothing tribal as the historics antecedents.

It is believed that the first in do this show was Thespis, a poet, that was going of village after village with the his mobile stage with wheels, known as "The Thespis' car". The clothes of greeks actors was composed to tunics, embroidered layers, masks and one shoes very high called "cortunos". The place where it was represented the theater plays was called "theatron", that mean "place where it seen", origin of its name.

Many centuries after, the romans followed the greek tradition, standing out in the representatios of theater plays very funniest that called "comedies".

At the middle age, some theater plays was representations of religious themes, of mysteries and miracles, its was did in the churches; but there were on the streets too, it's diverting to the people with the poetries, the songs and the funny occurences of the jugglers, troubadors and buffoons.

During the Renaissance did show up William Shakespeare, one of the greastest authors of theater Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello, Macbeth, among other...), It keeps the representation of his theater plays in the present time. To middle of the XVI century, the theater did to turn into the comedy of the art of the harlequins, favorites of children because them acrobatics and funniest pantomimes.

At the XVII century, did they write theater plays greastest authors how: Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderon de la Barca, Moliere... to turn into them period in: The Golden Century of the Theater.

At time most modern, the theater come be experimental, absurd, alternative, politics and much others renovating movements, opens and innovators; according to the time. As much the librettos as the act on stage have gone deeping and perfecting in agreement the that it wants express in the theater play.

But in long of the history, the theater keeps exact to its origin, that ins't more that the human and simple act of to play to be other.