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Staging
layout of a theatre
centrally placed was the orchestra ('dance-floor'), surrounded by the seats on three sides
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behind, or to the south of, the orchestra was the skene ('booth')
the skene was orginially just a dressing room, but by Aristophanes' time came to represent a house, or temple, or cave etc. In Lysistrata it is acropolis
the skene probs had three doors, although no extant 5th century tragedy requires use of more than one door, but this could have been altered later
there was perhaps a raised platform in front of the skene, approached by a set of steps
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between end of platform and spectators' seating there were broad side passages - eisodoi - for entrance and exit of chorus or actors
part of the skene was on two floors, with a window on the upper story (used by Dikaiopolis' wife in the Acharnians)
structure of plays
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parados
entry of the chorus, usually with song and dance
agon
the central scene, usually formal debate on crucial issue of the play, with two opposing speeches each introduced by a choral song
parabasis
in which chorus addresses the audience, consists of three songs and three speeches. S1-s1, S2-s2, S3-s3.
the end of the first speech is a small passage intended to be spoken in one breath, called the pnigos
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Choruses
when all was ready for a play to begin, the crier proclaimed 'Bring on your chorus'
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normally each chorus has a distinctive identity, but it need not retain this identity throughout
Acharnians, for example, has a chorus of elderly charcoal-burners from Acharnae at the beginning, but later in the play this identity is no affirmed
voting
ten men, one from each deme, were chosen by lot to vote, and then their votes were also chosen by lot
their votes would absolutely have been influenced by reactions from the wider audience during the play
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