VISIBILITY

As we can see from the picture above, Greek theatres, like this modern performance at Epidaurus, "one of the finest of many Greek auditoriums, built during the third and second centuries, B.C," (Brown, pg. 18) were massive. The performers would have to play to audiences as big as 14,000 people. It is because of this that the mask was of the utmost importance. It allowed the actors to be seen and have there emotions understood. The subltle gestures of an actors face would little farther than the people in the first two or three rows. The mask was adopted as a tool to help them be more visible to all of the audience. This is one of the uses of masks in Greek theatre. The next I would like to discuss is:

Acoustic Assitance

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