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Getty Villa – Storage Jar with a chorus of Stilt walkers – inv. VEX.2010.3.65. A Greek chorus (Ancient Greek: χορός, romanized: chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage ...
Relief of seated Dionysus and satyr; inscription beneath is a decree by the deme Aixone honoring the choregoi Auteas and Philoxenides (313–312 BC). In the theatre of ancient Greece, the choregos (pl. choregoi'; Greek: χορηγός, Greek etymology: χορός "chorus" + ἡγεῖσθαι "to lead") [n 1] was a wealthy Athenian citizen who assumed the public duty, or choregiai, of ...
Choral poetry is a type of lyric poetry that was created by the ancient Greeks and performed by choruses (see Greek chorus).Originally, it was accompanied by a lyre, a string instrument like a small U-shaped harp commonly used during Greek classical antiquity and later periods.
Greek chorus, a group of performers in the plays of classical Greece who comment on the dramatic action; Chorus (musical theatre), non-principal performers in musical theatre; Chorus, a Japanese manga magazine; Chorus, a film directed by Mrinal Sen; The Chorus, a 1982 Iranian short film directed by Abbas Kiarostami
The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war. Unlike some of Euripides' other plays, the chorus does not play a significant role in the plot, but represents the innocent and neutral people who very often are found in the middle of war situations.
According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first human to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as himself). In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first principal actor in addition to the chorus. [3] He is often called the "Inventor of Tragedy". [4] [5]
(Director and writer David S.) Ward and Uecker collaborated on a true innovation of the genre by turning this archetype into a comic Greek chorus punctuating the clownish action on the field with ...
The chorus of the elderly in classical Greek drama is a common trope in the theater of that period. Out of the thirty or so plays that are extant from the classical period, seven have choruses that consist of elderly people. [ 1 ]