ANCIENT DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE
ANCIENT DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE

Summary/Abstract: Ancient drama, or rather ancient tragedy, is always analyzed through its literary or dramatic experience. Although Aristotle himself had never had an opportunity to watch any ancient tragedies, in his ‘Poetics’, he explained the term "opsis" or rather, their potential staging. Working on examples of ancient tragedy with Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Skopje students of the History of World Drama and Theater Course, and also analyzing the remains of ancient theaters in Macedonia during the Macedonian Drama and Theater Course, I believe that in today's theater science, especially with us, there is a lack of explication on the staging of ancient plays. The paper researches the performative potential of Ancient Greek tragedies in terms of reconstruction of their stage performances. In theater science, it is mainly considered that the method of performance depends on the floor plan, or rather, on the construction of ancient theaters. Thus, this paper, in several parts, explains the way ancient tragedies were staged. The paper begins with an explanation of the way of reading a tragedy structure, the way of construction of ancient theaters, the way of creating performative element within dramatic text itself, and the potential reconstruction of ancient tragedies.

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