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A Roman theatre was very similar to a Greek theatre because the Romans were deeply influenced by the Greeks. They were semicircular with stone steps for the seating and the were open air. Unlike the Greeks, who aways built theatres on hillsides surrounded at the back and sides by it , the Romans also built theatres with their own foundations and away from hillsides.

As for Roman theatre as a performing art, there were festival performances, dramas, tragedies, satires, situational comedies, street theatre, acrobatics and nude dances. Roman actors wore masks with exaggerated expressions so that they the audiences could see them better. The masks also enabled actors to perform several characters and to perform female characters. All actors were males. The use of masks was also borrowed from the Greeks.

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Roman theatres were modelled on Greek theatres. However, instead of always being built on earthwork on hillsides, they could be built on their own foundations and could be placed in flat areas. The theatre of Pompey in Rome, which was first permanent Roman theatre, acted as the template for other theatres.

The Roman theatres were semi-circular. There was a high wall supported by columns at the back of the stage (the scaenae frons). There could also be a porticum scaenam, a portico which formed the back of the stage (pulpitum) and had decorative purposes, but could also be used for the scenes of the play. The front of the stage was supported by a wall with niches, the proscaenium. There was also a podium which could be the support of the columns of the scaenae frons. The sceanae frons was incorporated into the structure of the building later. Originally it was just a structure which provided a sufficient backdrop for the actors. The seating section was called the auditorium. Sometimes it was built on a slope like the Greeks did. The pulpitum was at the side of the ends of the auditorium and the orchestra was placed in the semi-circular area between the two structures.

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it;s old and it includes both tragedy and comedy

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They were basically patterned after the Greek theaters but they were generally free standing. The basic form was semicircular tiers of seats overlooking a platform or stage at ground level.

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