History of Theater

Theater, like all arts, has its origins in magic, that is, in the attempt to influence nature by the power of human will, and to transform ideas into strange things. In the early times of theater, every individual was an actor, and there was no distinction between the actor and the rest of the tribe. The world was the stage, and the stage for acting was a sacred place, and those present were of two types: performers and seekers. There was only an imaginary or moral space separating the acto...