What do you think four innovations that the Romans added to technical theatre.?

Question

What do you think four innovations that the Romans added to technical theatre.?

Answer 1

You really need to watch the History Channel series, Modern marvels, and/or Ancient Mysteries. One segment in the series deals with ROMAN theater and the tech advances they made.

Revolving stages

Rising and lowering platforms and stage sections

Filling the Coliseum with water to create sea battles

Using a lake to create the largest SHOW in History, expanding on the sea battle theme with a platform rising at the beginning, holding a 40 ft. high silver statue

various forms of lighting techniques

various forms of exploring acoustics

Using Chinese shadow theater, revolving theater images at a higher level of technology

etc. etc. etc.