Richard Schechner – Performance theory

Richard Schechner – Performance theory

Theatre for Beginners is your honest doorway into the stage where civilizations learned to think out loud. In each episode, one writer and one living question: why does this still hit us in the chest? No jargon, no gatekeeping—just story, stakes, and the human choices that won’t sit quietly. You’ll meet the architects of drama and comedy from Athens to Edo to London: Aeschylus turning grief into law, Sophocles giving conscience a spine, Euripides dragging the sacred into the kitchen, Aristophanes laughing politics back to its senses, Zeami shaping silence, Shakespeare setting language on fire. You leave each episode with more than a plot; you leave with a tool—how to argue without cheating, how to spot a pretty lie, how to stand your ground without becoming stone. If you’ve ever felt theatre was for other people, this is for you: one clear voice, rich storytelling, scenes you can see in your mind, and the quiet conviction that old plays are not homework—they’re field guides for today.This series lives inside the broader Selenius Media catalog of eleven shows—your one-stop studio for starter-friendly, deeply researched journeys across ideas, history, and art. Alongside Theatre for Beginners you’ll find Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners, Eastern Philosophy for Beginners, Scientific Giants, Classical Music Giants, Filmmaking Giants, Writers of Note, The Presidents, AI – An Uncertain Future (Season 1: The Birth of the Mind), and Addiction – Not a Moral Failing, with the full slate of eleven titles available together in a single stream on the Selenius Edit master feed. One channel if you want everything in one place; individual feeds if you prefer to go deep lane by lane. Either way, the promise is the same: clean narrative, zero fluff, maximum signal.Niklas Osterman

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Theatre for Beginners is your honest doorway into the stage where civilizations learned to think out loud. In each episode, one writer and one living question: why does this still hit us in the chest? No jargon, no gatekeeping—just story, stakes, and the human choices that won’t sit quietly. You’ll meet the architects of drama and comedy from Athens to Edo to London: Aeschylus turning grief into law, Sophocles giving conscience a spine, Euripides dragging the sacred into the kitchen, Aristophanes laughing politics back to its senses, Zeami shaping silence, Shakespeare setting language on fire. You leave each episode with more than a plot; you leave with a tool—how to argue without cheating, how to spot a pretty lie, how to stand your ground without becoming stone. If you’ve ever felt theatre was for other people, this is for you: one clear voice, rich storytelling, scenes you can see in your mind, and the quiet conviction that old plays are not homework—they’re field guides for today. This series lives inside the broader Selenius Media catalog of eleven shows—your one-stop studio for starter-friendly, deeply researched journeys across ideas, history, and art. Alongside Theatre for Beginners you’ll find Western Moral Philosophy for Beginners, Eastern Philosophy for Beginners, Scientific Giants, Classical Music Giants, Filmmaking Giants, Writers of Note, The Presidents, AI – An Uncertain Future (Season 1: The Birth of the Mind), and Addiction – Not a Moral Failing, with the full slate of eleven titles available together in a single stream on the Selenius Edit master feed. One channel if you want everything in one place; individual feeds if you prefer to go deep lane by lane. Either way, the promise is the same: clean narrative, zero fluff, maximum signal. Niklas Osterman

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