The word theatre comes from the Greek word theatron, which means - ‘The place where people listen’.
The Greeks would build the theatres on hill sides. If the surface was rocky semicircles were cut out, layer above layer, but if the hill side was soft an excavation was made in the hillside and lined with rows of stone benches and steps leading up the rows were often lined with marble. The auditorium was divided by broad concentric belts, named diazomata, which served as lobbies.
Even though the Greeks worshipped goddesses as well as god’s women were thought as less than men, they often had to stay in the house at the back or upper part of the house to be kept away from men they weren’t related to. Women were married at the age of 14 to an older man and there job was to bear a son.
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