What legacies from Greek Theatre are still used today?
Matt is not correct. Many of the conventions used in Greek theater are still in use today, not only in theater but also in film and television. For instance one well known convention of Greek Theater – “deus ex machina”(translation: God from the machine) is still highly used today. In ancient greek plays when the plot had developed so many threads that there was no easy or short way to wrap them up, the playwright would write in the appearance of a god to reveal what needed to be revealed in order to quickly bring the play to conclusion, usually the actor playing the god was lowered in on a rope from above or rose out of a trap door from below. In today’s modern entertainment usually a phone call that fills in that vital piece of information that allows the plot to come to a conclusion thus a modern version of ‘deus ex machina’. Another ancient greek theater tradition that has carried over into modern times is the convention of the chorus. In greece the chorus acted as the voice of the
