What was the first theatre built in the world?

Question:The Greeks may have been first, but I remeber something about ancient Chinese mat theatres. In a very real sense, the primitive dancing circle with a fire in the center and the tribe sitting all around watching the ceremonies being performed in the circle can be called the first theatres. There is no date for them by they are far before the Greeks.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The Greeks may have been first, but I remeber something about ancient Chinese mat theatres. In a very real sense, the primitive dancing circle with a fire in the center and the tribe sitting all around watching the ceremonies being performed in the circle can be called the first theatres. There is no date for them by they are far before the Greeks.

idk but the first movie was frankenstien

The first theatres were probably Greek, about 550 BC.

The first "theaters" as we know them were more like stadiums, and would have been in ancient Greece.

Incidentally, the first movie was NOT "Frankenstein." The first known instance of a filmed motion picture was a two-second clip of a party in a garden in Yorkshire, England in 1888. Thomas Edison worked extensively in film, producing short clips both for nickelodeon projectors; one of his short clips, which he called "Fred Ott's Sneeze," was just a clip of a man named Fred Ott, sneezing. Edison mostly filmed clips of stuff happening, rather than trying to tell a story. At the same time, two brothers in Paris, the Lumiere brothers, also worked on the technology, and also filming clips of everyday life like workers leaving a factory. But the Lumieres produced what people consider to be the first silent "movie", in the sense that it tells a story -- it's a silent film they call "The Sprinkler Sprinkled," and features a man watering a garden with a hose and a boy playing a prank on him by stepping on the hose to stop it up and then letting the water go again when the man peered into the hose.

It's hard to say what was the first film made specifically for theaters, because so many of the early movie houses just used old nickelodeon films. But they were all well before FRANKENSTEIN, which was released in the 1930's.