Improvisation theater is a type of theater whose performances are created by the method of improvisation .
Theaters of improvisation were known among the people already in the 5th century. BC e. Unlike dramatic productions that had a well-developed script and were played in places specially designed for the performance, street performances were played by actors without preliminary preparation and had only a general, as a rule comic and topical orientation. One example of such a theater is the mime, which only more than a hundred years later received a literary embodiment.
The traditions of the ancient theater were inherited by the improvisation theater of the Middle Ages, in particular, comedy masks . Having outlived itself by the 19th century, this genre experienced a revival in the era of modernism : Vsevolod Meyerhold and Yevgeny Vakhtangov [1] turned to the theater of improvisation as an integral part of the synthetic theater, the art of improvisation was developed by Jacques Kopo and Jean-Louis Barrot .
Improvisation Theaters
- Mime - V century BC e., Greece .
- Atellan - II century BC e., Campania .
- Comedy del arte - XVI — XVIII centuries, Italy .
Notes
- ↑ Ahmadi A. Traditions of the comedy del arte in Russian literature (1750–1938) / Editor N. Serebrennikova .. - Directmedia, 2014. - 151 p. - ISBN 9785917631783 .
Sources
- Theater - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia