Sunday 18 May 2014

Skene

Skene


Meant Tent or Booth. It was a place at the rear of the orchestra where actors could dress, change costume , and to emerge from or retreat into when they made their entrances and exits. It was originally a wooden structure or hut. By the 5th century BC the skene had evolved into a more permanent structure complete with a flat roof on top of the stage proper (logeion) where the actors performed, often with side wings (paraskenia). The central door or opening to the skene was sometimes called the royal door, as the skene itself often represented the royal palace in the play. Later on the wooden buildings were replaced by full stone structures

It was conventional practice in the period for classical dramas that characters never died on stage, instead they usually retreated into the skene to do so. Afterwards the corpse in a sculptural pose might be rolled out into public view on an ekkuklema. and  then pulled back in again through the central opening of the skene.


It has also be suggested that the skene acted as kind of off-stage, invisible room from which sounds could emerge and by their nature the audience was made to use its imagination to guess what has happened, perhaps a  murder, or an assassination, and moments later the truth of which was to revealed to the audience when the ekkuklema was rolled out with the corpse.
Logeion (Greek; pl. logeia meant a speaking place, a stage). A high stage was used by actors in Hellenistic theatres. Located behind the orchestra and before the skênê. The front of the logeion (stage) was supported by the hyposkênion (front wall of the proskenion). The remains of a logeion can be found at Priene, Turkey. The remains of access ramps from the paradoi to the logeion can be found at Sicyon, Greece.

The small room inside the skene used for storage of costumes and masks, and for dressing in was called the skenotheke,

There seems to have been a convention, from the audience's perspective, that the left (eastern) eisodos [passageway] led to the country, whereas the right (western) eisodos [passageway] was the route to the city.

During last quarter of the fifth century BC, the Skene had an upper storey with at least one window.


Aristotle (Poetics 1449a18) attributes to Sophocles the invention of skeno­graphia, referring to pictures painted on the skene.

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