Is it possible to make Classical Drama accessible to today’s audience? Have we arrived at a time when a declining dramatic stage is being replaced by the film and the musical? What methods are available to us as we try to teach Classical Drama successfully? The humanities are in crisis. We find the answer in the origin of drama. In ancient Greece, the drama was derived from the dithyramb, a sort of worship dedicated to Dionysos, a life force represented as the god of wine and fertility. ‘City Dionysia’, the great Athenian civic festival held in Athens honoring Dionysus was the occasion of the annual tragedy contest, and the most widely accepted theory about the birth of tragedy holds that Dionysian worship ritual resulted in the birth of tragedy. The emergence of ritual drama proves one of the interesting features of the modern Western stage, a return to the origin of drama. Nowadays big cities compete in providing huge stages for the performing arts, and they offer the sort of civic festivals once seen in Athens when drama began. Today’s students are constantly being bombarded with information. They have too many choices. In the age of the Internet, the young tend to watch and listen rather than read. The Greeks, who had basically an oral, pre-literacy culture, also listened and watched, rather than read. The theater came before written literature. Today, the performance of Classical Drama is particularly meaningful for the drama classroom. "Play’s the thing(Hamlet 3.1. 557)." Having students perform a drama will prove to be one of the most successful teaching methods. It will add an active, personal dimension to the cerebral approach of reading the text, then reading secondary literature, then analyzing the various elements of the play. Acting the play out means allowing the students to find and experience the dramatic qualities in their own lives. This is the theatricality of life and the life-like qualities of the theatre, as Shakespeare frequently reminded us through metaphor.