5th September period 3

Aim: to develope knowledge of te genre classical Greek tradgedy and original background and performance conditions (copy down for log book)

Recap key events in eah episode of The Trojan women (prologue - prosideon & AThene) 1- andromici sacrif virgin, 2 -women with the baby, 3- Helena menelaious (trial scene) also blame hecuaba for not killing Paris after being told to do soo by the oracle, 4- exodus scene

Recap assessment criteria for classical theatre performance (booklets)
Log book, Presentation
Rehearsels
Rehearsels of polished extract
Performance

Recap presentation criteria

Students deliver presentations as others peer assess and make notes for log

Greek amplitheatre Jo, Leanne
550b
Holes in limes stone allowed sound to be aplifide
Place that worships Dionysus
Theatre used as a way of expressing strong emotions
Sacrifice of people over goats
Orchesta was where the acting was
Flat roof was an homage to the gods valley theologian
Koikon was where the audience sat, front row for the priests( throbs or marble
Apart from the main structure most was wooden and mobile at the end of the 5 th century they built perminent scenes and scene = skene
GET DIAGRAM of theatre
Greek an Elizabethan theatres
Circle veie and more involved in production
Both outdoors with natural light
Actors in both interact with audience members due to theatre layout
Differences between Greek and elizebethan
Enclosed with root to be efficient and rliable
Greek theatre minamal
Elezaberhan complete seeting with balconies andboxes these where posh rich people were rarther than ground or mid level like Greek
Elizabethan stage also on level obvious and marked out