20th Sept

Classical performance

Aim:
To have identified and understood the challangeswhat facing dirctors and performers of the trojan women

No. One:
How to show the women running into flames

Rachels:
Portraying the gods to show their immortal state

Answer:
Balcony on the stage fog machine

April:
How to stage astionax and the body comming back on

Hayley:
Making choral interloodes interesting

James:
Understanding and conveying classical language

Rachel:
Making it assesable to a modern day audience could even change the war not Trojan but aghanistsn. Modern costume not the language

Joe:
Acting like a person from that eara or the interpretation of Helen victim of whore

Chloe:
Bury astionax

Becky:
Could stage narrated past events eg. Rape, wooden horse, blood

Leanne:
How to show character statuses eg. Hecuba quenn but she now says that she is equal she takes over as the male figure

Rachel:
How to show Cassandra's visions and communication of dramatic irony that we know she can see these but others think she is crazy

Katie:
Clarrification of character and pronunciation

Me:
How to show the women running into the flames and to stage the burning of troy

Sarah:
Where would you persition the chorus so they are separate to gods and actors. In modern could be people in newyork after two towers.

Presentation of characters and make Helen stand out

How to show that menalaious has been manipulated by Helen at the end

Interpretation of Telthibious the change from being hard to sensitive

Watching A2 performance