Word theatre - the Greek origin. In the Greek language it meant a place for a show. The theatrical art has arisen very much for a long time, during immemorial times, at the beginning of human culture. Also developed together with a life of the mankind.
And still the theatre is born for each of us as though anew. If girls transplant the dolls and long conversations have with them - whether small it is private theatricals, where at everyone - the role?
One of the main elements of a theatrical art - game. All also has begun with it.
The beginning of theatre of a steel of game and ceremonies of the primitive people. In these games there were also first "characters" - kind and malicious forces. They were expressed not by people, and deities, spirits, the natural phenomena which sense people then yet did not understand. In games dialogues were born. It is possible to consider as the birthplace of drama theatre the Ancient Greece. Greeks have presented to the world and a new kind of the literature - dramatic art, the literature for a scene.