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    Theatre is a collaborative art form that presents live performances to an audience. Elements like scenery, lighting, acting, music, and dance are used to enhance the experience. The word "theatre" comes from the Greek word "theatron", meaning a place for viewing. Modern Western theatre originated from ancient Greek theatre, which consisted of three dramatic genres: tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays. Participation in Greek theatre festivals was an important part of citizenship.

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    Theatre or theater[a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually

    actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience
    in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the
    audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art,
    such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality,
    presence and immediacy of the experience.[1] The specific place of the performance is also
    named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place
    for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe").
    Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from
    which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock
    characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavis defines theatricality, theatrical
    language, stage writing and the specificity of theatre as synonymous expressions that
    differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature and the arts in general.[2][b]
    Modern theatre includes performances of plays and musical theatre. The art forms of ballet and
    opera are also theatre and use many conventions such as acting, costumes and staging. They
    were influential to the development of musical theatre; see those articles for more information.

    Classical and Hellenistic Greece[edit]


    Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily, Italy
    Main article: Theatre of ancient Greece
    A depiction of actors playing the roles of a master (right) and his slave (left) in a Greek phlyax
    play, circa 350/340 BCE
    The city-state of Athens is where western theatre originated.[3][4][5][c] It was part of a broader
    culture of theatricality and performance in classical Greece that included festivals, religious
    rituals, politics, law, athletics and gymnastics, music, poetry, weddings, funerals, and
    symposia.[6][5][7][8][d]
    Participation in the city-state's many festivals—and mandatory attendance at the City Dionysia
    as an audience member (or even as a participant in the theatrical productions) in particular—
    was an important part of citizenship.[10] Civic participation also involved the evaluation of the
    rhetoric of orators evidenced in performances in the law-court or political assembly, both of
    which were understood as analogous to the theatre and increasingly came to absorb its
    dramatic vocabulary.[11][12] The Greeks also developed the concepts of dramatic criticism and
    theatre architecture.[13][14][15] Actors were either amateur or at best semi-professional.[16]
    The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the
    satyr play.

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