Week 2 GREEK

So week two has hit of Greek and time is passing by so fast again but this week we worked on the main themes of the play, the main one we looked Otto this week was forgiveness by looking it this I notice I don't forgive that easy we did this b discussing about the different explames what we sheared with our parteners.

On Wednesday we we did a workshop with Alex I found it really useful as we looked how we found interpret the chourse within different ways I found this really instating as we looked how adding movement that retaliated to the word 'see'. The whole group pretend that we where looking out for something by placing our hand on to our forward. We then looked at text within a different group so and moved round the different dynamics such a whisper - this would add the feeling of horror and creepy as if something bad was going to happen this is one of the tings we looked at after we add it all together.

In the group I came up with the actions to how we betrayed the words suck as 'kill her and be done with it' this was when the person behind pretend to sligh the person in front throat also that when we say our lines we should come out of the group this was so that we would stand out more when speaking our line.

Staging was a main topic we looked at as a hole and done the balancing a game which helped the understanding how some staging worked, this was called the plate, after the groups was given a chours speech and had to decide on how we wanted are staging , my group came up with the idea of musical chairs and the audience in cruicl round the out side we found this worked really well as it Perdue the atmosphere we where hoping to give which was the we were going into there personal space.

This is only a few things that was done on week two I hope to get the videos up soon after envying is fixed sorry please bear with me.

VIDEO coming soon so sorry about this issue.

Week 1 GREEK

  This week was the first week we finally started looking more into Greek, the first day we started looking more into the Greek which I found really instresting as we learnt more about how the lifestyle is and how they would use the theatre to get politics across.

Movement : we worked on the bath secen the chourse people split into two groups we we're give the words 'twitching' and 'overlap' so my idea that we then used when showed back to the rest of the group; was that we tents are muscle in our arms this was to give the effect that we were twitching, this is some times call as tutting in street dance , enough idea of mine was that we should overlap  repeat each other with the movement around with the then calliopes over one of each other.

For the rest of the week and Wednesday we looked more into detail with the characters we were given we did this by a simple group excise of deciding in how are they would stand so we picked a pose and  what martial they would be made out of so mine is Helen who is a Demi god so the group and I decid on marble.

Thursday we looked into two different sence one being where I worked with in the chorus and helped come up with ideas in when the chourse should leave, now in have time to think about he sence I feel that maybe some of the chourse should already be on stage around tyndareous on each side of the box so the main 3 , then on a word lay down out words  so it gives the effect the box has opened meaning that his mind as open to my feeling and anger.

We then looked at my sence this was a lot harder then what I would though it would be, as I had to be kinda of a sligh bitch and big head this is a character I have never played before with power with in my voice to make Electra fear me. This will be more explained in my video.

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 This pose one the main image in Helen of her showing that she in important and vain and the hair touching shows that she is meant to be beautiful.

 This pose two this is meant to show the same but in a bigger actions so that it hits the back of the theatre, I felt that having the wide arms gave Helen power.

Reflect week on the Greek

So before we even started the Greeks we did a lot of research before we got give the parts we would to be playing so we looked into the history of Greek and the different types do Greek play such as comedy and tragedy the I learnt that this was used to have a look into Greek policies to see that if the things they where doing back in the BC was correct , this was also used to get the whole town to talk about the issue created in the play but not everyone had their the same view. As the chorus would be there changing their point of views.

Also that the chorus was there to stand for a person in look into a issue.

So over the last 6/7 weeks we have been working on how we could show the chorus on the 2nd week of BETC of drama the class split it to group and give a text were we relaid it back but as one my ideas for this was to have each person saying a line then we pick a word form the line what I/we wanted to sick out like sore thumb, but as we only had 20 , minutes and the rest of the group have never looked at Greek before I found my self getting annoyed and found this was issue as we where shouting over each other and we where not getting any where so in the end we decide that on words which as one we picked out we would look one way this idea was created by me and enough member in the group , this was one of the Greek workshop we did.

So even though I had never looked at the script it was time to go in to class and show what I could do we did this through a casting class so at fist I play eltrac for blood and light this was hard as it was the pint where she killed her father and she still wanted him to be there I came up with in a two that I should walk towards and drop on a word in a text 'father' .

Then I worked on the mother, I won't try with the name as I will probably get it work but it starts with a C , I played her with power in the voice but not to mush as she need fear as her sound is crazy and about to kill her, so even though I like this character it just didn't seem correct so I got a chance to Helen I then play with a a power in my voice but bow that this is my set character I feel that Helen should be up right .

This so only a few things that took part during the lead to Greek theatre.