The word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, meaning "seeing place." В презентации использованы материалы электронной энциклопедии Microsoft Encarta. - презентация

1 the word theater comes from the Greek word theatron, meaning "seeing place." В презентации использованы материалы электронной энциклопедии Microsoft Encarta 2006

2 Theater, one of the oldest and most popular forms of entertainment, in which actors perform live for an audience on a stage or in an other space designated for the performance.

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4 Scene from Marat/Sade This scene is from the Royal Shakespeare Companys 1966 production of a play by Peter Weiss called The Persecution and Assassination of Jean- Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

5 Modern Production of Oedipus Rex The National Theater of Greece staged this production of the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles in 2000 at the Colosseum in Rome.

6 A Midsummer Nights Dream Fairies emerge from doorways in space, and Bottoms bed hangs suspended before the moon in this 1998 production of A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon.

7 La Traviata at La Scala Opera, drama in which the text is set to music and staged. The texts of operas are sung, with singing and stage action nearly always given instrumental accompaniment.

8 Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker

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