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Oedipus View more presentations from debbieg. Conventions of the Theatre. We often hear of the ancient Greek theatre as being a theatre of convention rather than a theatre of illusion, and such truisms are true, but not true enough.Their conventions were different from ours, and the plays, in some ways, present reality, though not (often) everyday life.edipus View more presentations from debbieg. Conventions of the Theatre. We often hear of the ancient Greek theatre as being a theatre of convention rather than a theatre of illusion, and such truisms are true, but not true enough.
The theatre of Ancient Greece evolved from religious rites which date back to at least 1200 BC. At that time, Greece was peopled by tribes that we in our arrogance might label 'primitive'. In northern Greece, in an area called Thrace, a cult arose that worshipped Dionysus, the god of fertility and procreation.he Theatre of Dionysus, built at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, could seat 17,000 people. During their heyday, the competitions drew as many as 30,000 spectators. The words theatre and amphitheatre derive from the Greek word theatron, which referred to the wooden spectator stands erected on those hillsides.