In its earliest form, Greek theater only included one actor paired with a chorus, but over 150 years, plays began to involve more actors as well as architectural components.

But it is the chorus, so much more than a backup group, that has always had the long view. The mighty ignore its voice at their peril. Immortalized by a Greek Chorus of Gospel ...

The first plays were performed with just one actor (called a protagonist) and a chorus of people who helped him to tell the story. However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to ...

Bruce DuBose, Undermain Theatre’s co-founder and producing artistic director, explains that the play is unique among the Greek tragedies as a production based on recent events of that time.

The Pliant Girls has little in common with Euripides' The Suppliant Women except both plays employ the Greek theatre convention, a chorus. The five females in this cast of characters are each more ...

This "Medea" is staged with the actors masked, a women's chorus, a skene (a building particular to Greek theater) and an orchestra, puppets, and the costumes are of the period, Gordon-Bland explained.

Image: Greek Theatre Players. Chorus parts starred girls from the school, Greenall tells us, many of whom would dash from rehearsals to their exams still dressed in ancient Greek attire.

This simple exchange, written around 441 B.C., demonstrates how one character came to challenge the autocracy of another in early Greek theater, and how Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides nurtured ...

The play - ancient Greek tragedy 'Antigone', a story about free will, disobedience and authority - spoke to their hearts. In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre Skip to main content ...