Good afternoon, Cougars!
Hear ye!! Hear Ye!!
DCISD is having a One Act play!!! Showtime will be April 12th opening at 6p.m.
See you there or be square!!
Here a few fun facts about Drama and Theatre:
When Shakespeare’s Globe burned down in 1613, the
one casualty was a man whose breeches caught fire; they were put
out with a bottle of ale.
In 1782, a lady named Mrs. Fitzherbert died laughing at a performance of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera
at the theatre.
A ‘deuteragonist’ is the second actor or person in a drama, after the protagonist. It’s first
recorded in 1855 in a book by G. H. Lewes.
Thespis is credited with being the person who invented the idea of the actor. It is from him that we get ‘thespian’.
In the years following the Roman empire, women were
. Women would not be allowed on the English stage until 1660. In ancient Rome, there were a number of famous actresses, including one of Emperor Nero’s concubines, Acte.
