Hippodrama

Horse Theatre, Ross comedy or drama, Hippo is a brand of melodrama. Especially in adventure and equipment pieces that was once called spectacle piece, crowd scenes were shown with horses on stage to increase its sensation value in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here, theater and circus combined. When substances were popular battles, even current events like the storming of the Bastille in 1789.

As one of the first, this led the London circus pioneer Philip Astley since the 1770s in the so-called mime with mainly historical subjects before. Horse theater was taken over by the Parisian boulevard theaters under Pixérécourt. Even more genteel stage events such as the grand opera were influenced by it. The Theater an der Wien, in 1800 one of the most modern German theater, Ross had many comedies in the repertoire. For dressage acts often featured members of the cavalry available. Formation riding and vaulting could come in this context applies.

In the educated middle-class theater animals were, however, underestimated on the stage. In the 20th century, the horse theater passed into the genre of the cloak-and -dagger film and in the Western.