evolution of theatre architecture

What is Theater?

Damini prasad pratikesh Kartikaparna

(PERFORMING ARTS)Theatre  is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors, 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

(THEATRE BUILDING)A theatre, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced. a theatre serves to define the performance and audience spaces.

(PERFORMING ARTS)Theatre  is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors, 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

(THEATRE BUILDING)A theatre, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced. a theatre serves to define the performance and audience spaces.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEATRE BUILDINGS(based on function)OPERA HOUSE

PLAYHOUSE

MULTIPURPOSE THEATRE

MUSICAL THEATRE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEATRE BUILDINGSOPERA HOUSE

PLAYHOUSE

MULTIPURPOSE THEATRE

MUSICAL THEATRE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEATRE BUILDINGSOPERA HOUSE

PLAYHOUSE

MULTIPURPOSE THEATRE

MUSICAL THEATRE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF THEATRE BUILDINGSOPERA HOUSE

PLAYHOUSE

MULTIPURPOSE THEATRE

MUSICAL THEATRE

Types Of Stage Areas Proscenium Stage • Thrust Theatre• End Stage• Arena Theatre• Flexible “Black Box” Theatre

Types Of Stage Areas• Proscenium Stage Thrust Theatre• End Stage• Arena Theatre• Flexible “Black Box” Theatre

Types Of Stage Areas• Proscenium Stage • Thrust Theatre End Stage• Arena Theatre• Flexible “Black Box” Theatre

Types Of Stage Areas• Proscenium Stage • Thrust Theatre• End Stage Arena Theatre• Flexible “Black Box” Theatre

Types Of Stage Areas• Proscenium Stage • Thrust Theatre• End Stage• Arena Theatre Flexible “Black Box” Theatre

EVOLUTION OF THEATRES IN TERMS OF ARCHITECTURE

Theatre of Marcellus

Sebastiano Serlio

COLOSSEUM

ACOUSTICS IN OPEN AIR THEATRES

THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS

ACOUSTICS

LIGHTS

•At an unknown date, candlelight was introduced which brought more developments to theatrical lighting across Europe.

•Gas lighting hit the English stage in the early 1800s beginning •In this type of illumination, a gas flame is used to heat a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide).• This illumination could then be directed by reflectors and lenses•Limelight became popular in the 1860s and beyond, until it was displaced by electrical lighting

Standard Oil Lamp:Oil lamps were widely used for domestic and public lighting, including in thetheatre, until the end of the 18th century. The wick, when immersed in low-quality oil, produced not only light but also smokeand a foul smell. High-quality vegetable oils, such as olive oil, provided more light with less smoke, and a better odour.

•At an unknown date, candlelight was introduced which brought more developments to theatrical lighting across Europe.

•Gas lighting hit the English stage in the early 1800s beginning •In this type of illumination, a gas flame is used to heat a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide).• This illumination could then be directed by reflectors and lenses•Limelight became popular in the 1860s and beyond, until it was displaced by electrical lighting

Standard Oil Lamp:Oil lamps were widely used for domestic and public lighting, including in thetheatre, until the end of the 18th century. The wick, when immersed in low-quality oil, produced not only light but also smokeand a foul smell. High-quality vegetable oils, such as olive oil, provided more light with less smoke, and a better odour.

•At an unknown date, candlelight was introduced which brought more developments to theatrical lighting across Europe.

•Gas lighting hit the English stage in the early 1800s beginning •In this type of illumination, a gas flame is used to heat a cylinder of quicklime (calcium oxide).• This illumination could then be directed by reflectors and lenses•Limelight became popular in the 1860s and beyond, until it was displaced by electrical lighting

Standard Oil Lamp:Oil lamps were widely used for domestic and public lighting, including in thetheatre, until the end of the 18th century. The wick, when immersed in low-quality oil, produced not only light but also smokeand a foul smell. High-quality vegetable oils, such as olive oil, provided more light with less smoke, and a better odour.

Teatro Olimpico

Teatro Farnese

ACOUSTICS IN ENCLOSED THEATRES

ROOM SHAPETHE TALKER–TO-AUDIENCE DISTANCE CAN BE MINIMIZED BY CAREFULLY CONSIDERING THE ROOM GEOMETRY

A RECTANGULAR SHOEBOX-TYPE HALL,WITH THE STAGE ACROSS ONE NARROW END IS SUITABLE FOR MUSIC.

FOR GREATER SEATING CAPACITY,THE SIDEWALLS SHOULD BE SPLAYED FROM THE STAGE

THE SPLAYED WALLS CAN REFLECT SOUND ENERGY TO THE REAR OF THE HALL.

CEILING• CEILING REFLECTORS ARE CALLED CLOUDS AND ARE USED TO DIRECT SOUND FROM STAGE TO THE SITTING AREA.• THE SQUARE REFLECTING PANEL SHOULD BE 5 TIMES THE WAVELENGTH OF THE LOWEST FREQUENCY TO BE REFLECTED.• THE PATHLENGTH DIFFERENCES SHOULD NOT EXCEED 20MSEC.

STAGE LIGHTING

ElectrificationAn advance of great importance was the introduction of the electric carbon arc lamp, which was exhibited in experimental form in 1808. The Paris Opéra developed the earliest electric arc effect—to represent a beam of sunlight—as early as 1846.

The next great advance in lighting was the development of the incandescent electric lamp, in which light is produced by a filament electrically heated to incandescence. The invention of a practical electric lamp by Thomas Edison in 1879 marked the beginning of the modern era of stage lighting.

ElectrificationAn advance of great importance was the introduction of the electric carbon arc lamp, which was exhibited in experimental form in 1808. The Paris Opéra developed the earliest electric arc effect—to represent a beam of sunlight—as early as 1846.

The next great advance in lighting was the development of the incandescent electric lamp, in which light is produced by a filament electrically heated to incandescence. The invention of a practical electric lamp by Thomas Edison in 1879 marked the beginning of the modern era of stage lighting.

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