Medea: Greek theatre

Greek theatre: Medea 

18th September 2018

What we did in class today:

Today we work on the play Medea to help us to begin to familiarise ourselves with some of the other Greek theatre plays. We were put into groups of 5 and each group  was given a different parts of the first page of Medea to recreate and make our own.  In my group we had the longest part, the part that began with “Ok. I’m the oldest” and ended with “hysterical woman”. Having a long part to work with allowed my group to play around with the speech and how it should be presented.

How we presented/ preformed our piece:

We preformed our part of the play standing in a semi circle facing the audience. My part was first during my part of the piece towards the end, it had repetitive in it. I saw this as an option for one of my fellow actors to join in and say the repetitive part with me: “Medea Medea!” This helps to give our piece depth and more body to the lines that I viewed as being shouted. When each of us was saying our parts we turned to look at each other as if we was talking to one another. We did this to make it seem as if we was not just talking to no body. Out of our 4 people in my group 5 including me, 4 of us had longer parts to read. The 5 person in our group helped to create body in the text by joining in with people lines throughout the piece. At the Until the last two words of the text; “hysterical woman!” Where we all joined in other ending in our finally freeze frame. Aswell as us adding depth into our text we wanted to make sure we looked professional, so when we finished saying our part, we froze in a freeze frame of our own.


Why learning Greek theatre is important:

Greek theatre is important for us to learn to help us with acting because it helps us to understand all sorts of forms that plays can be presented in and how all plays have different unique actors that can change a play even when it’s the same play being preformed but by different actors.

Morning context class:

We was all seated at the computers and was given time to work on our blogs unfortunately I wasn’t able to login in so I lost time and wasn’t able to do my blog. However I was able to focus completely on the video that was played on the board about Greek theatre and how it is important and how knowing about it is useful and all the different techniques they use to keep the audience at the edge of their seats.  Having the ability to keep the audience Engaged is very important otherwise you have a audience that is potentially falling asleep.