Back then, through 4-6th century B.C., Greek theatres were popular.

They always were built outside and looked like a big semi-circle.

In fact, the very first Greek theatre built was outside in a hillside.

THE INTRO:

The Structures: For a basic Greek theatre, there are four major

components: Theatron, Skene, Orchestra, and Parados.

However, for a more complicated theatre, they have more than 4 components; sub components.

-A simple Greek theatre’s stucture.

THEATRON: The term for theatron was “viewing-place”. Basically where the audience sits to watch the plays Around the 5th century B.C., the audience uses cushion

or boards, but later around the 4th century B.C, they had marbles seats.

Parts of the theatron are diazoma and koilon. Koilon

DIAZOMA Diazoma consists A and B