March 27: World Theater Day

World Theater Day is celebrated in more than one hundred countries around the world and the idea of ​​this celebration originated in 1961 in Paris, at the International Theater Institute, a body associated with the UNESCO. Every year and prior to the start of the performance, a message written by some of the most important personalities of the theater worldwide is read.
The word theater comes from the Greek "theatron" and it represented a place to behold. The theater represents stories before an audience using a combination of resources such as speeches, makeup, sounds, music, scenery, acting, gestures, etc. While most historians establish the birth in Greece, there were theatrical demonstrations before.
The history of theater in the West has its main roots in Athens, between the 4th and 5th centuries BC. There the settlers celebrated rites in homage to Dionysus, the supreme god of fertility and wine. In the course of the 6th century, Thespis, a lyrical poet who traveled from town to town by cart organizing local festivities, introduced dithyramb in Attica. Leaving aside the previous disorganized dances, the dithyrambs that Thespis directed, wrote and starred in were representations of literature texts for singing and dancing, generally accompanied by flutes and with the participation of youth and men.

The best example of theatrical works we have with the great playwright William Shakespeare. He was born in England in 1564 and his works were translated into more than seventy languages ​​and his dramatic pieces continue to be performed throughout the universe today.