Origins of Theater

Theory 1 (Egypt)

Acording to this theory the people of Egypt came up with theater in the hopes of depicting the immortality of the pharoas. I can see this as a cool idea, but frankly I don’t agree that this is where theater started.

Theory 2 (Greek):

Acording to this theory, there was a huge celebration in Greece, and since poetry had already been “created” lines of poetry were said by the “actors” and acted out. It was a way of entertaining thoses of a higher class.

I personally disagree with all of this. I think that theater was created spontaniously and not by a certain civilization. It could have happened through a person who decided that he/she would have fun pretending to be someone else, and people enjoying to watch them. Mocking is in human nature, and I will say it can be fun to watch someone do it. There are WAY TOO MANY ways this could have happened to pick one, two, or even three and say that they are true, because it is ignorant to suggest that Theater was created by one group of people and somehow spread from civilization to civilization, and somehow ended up crossing the ocean before any people did. Theater is origin-less, it was not created, it just happened. When money came around people got greedy and decided to do whatever sort of theater they’d created for a profit. Even before money, material goods must have been given for entertainment, that’s just common curtsy. It’s like when someone says something funny and therefore you give them a high five. That’s how theater became what it was today, people realized how much other people enjoyed being entertained. Now I’m rambling… In short, theater just happened, it wasn’t created, and because of that there’s no way to explain how it was created.