neetning acting, theater and stage struc organization, music, dance, and aestheties AUDIENCE, PLAYHOUSE 11 performances during the clas GF Sanskrit theater (100-900 spparently were offered on oceasions ina from sacred festivals to the coro iages, births, or the . favelers. Although Bharata the ideal spectator for such ss was learned and of high ers of all four castes (seated separately) seem to have attended. The Natyasasira describes three types of play houses (square, telangular, and rectangu: Ja) and three sizes that these buildings could assume (small, medium-sized, and large), but focuses mainly on a rectangu lar building measuring 96 by 48 feet. Such a playhouse should resemble cave, so thatthe actors’ voices would resonate. Its interior was divided into two equal a with one half (called the prokshagriha) devoted to seating an audience that would hhave probably included no more than 500 spectators. ‘The other half was. itself ivided in twor its hack balf (the nepathys) served as a backstage and dressing room, 1 by Bharata