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Tragedy Mask Silver Pendant - Drama - Ancient Greek Theater - Handcrafted in Greece in Ancient Greece, plays were performed in open-air theatres during the day. At the start of the play a chorus of between 15 & 25 people came onto the stage, called the orchestra, to introduce the story, explaining who the characters in the story were & what had happened to them before the time the play was about. The appearance of the chorus often included music, dance, & song.In the ancient theatre, the hypocrites & the chorus members wore masks.After the chorus's introduction, individual actors would appear & interact with one another & also often engaged in a dialogue with the chorus. Besides the chorus, no more than three actors were allowed on stage at any time. This meant that Greek actors often had to play more than one part. To suggest different characters actors wore masks & costumes that they changed over the course of the play.The use of the masks derived from the Dionysian cult, but it was established because it served several important purposes in Ancient Greek theater: their exaggerated expressions helped define the characters the actors were playing; they allowed actors to play more than one role (or gender); they helped audience members in the distant seats see and, by projecting sound somewhat like a small megaphone, even hear the characters better. Masks were constructed out of lightweight materials such as wood, linen, cork, & sometimes real hair. in a tragedy, masks were more life-like; in a comedy or satyr play, masks were ugly & grotesque. Tragedy masks were beautiful & heroic, with idealized features. They were used in plays by men like Aeschylus, Sophocles, & Euripides, who wrote about stories in Greek mythology. Greek tragedies were serious & rich in moral lessons. The pendant is handcrafted in Greece with extra care in 925 Sterling Silver. Its height is 2.8 cm (excluding the bail) & weighs approximately 6g. This pendant is without the chain. (335) Tragedy Mask 925 Sterling Silver Pendant - Ancient Greek Theatre
