Ekkyklema

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | 675 words | Copyright

Ekkyklema, piece of ancient Greek stage machinery which has occasioned a great deal of controversy among modern scholars. Meaning literally something ‘rolled out’, it was obviously used to bring forward some object, character, or grouping important in the play's context. This was once thought to have been a movable platform which was either pushed on stage or revolved on a turntable to show an interior scene. It is now thought to have been nothing more than a couch on wheels, or a grouping arranged within a pair of double doors which opened to reveal it, as the doors open in Aeschylus' Libation Bearers to reveal the bodies of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

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