Tuesday 6 September 2011

6th sept 5

Katie & Sarah
Tragedy
Story of a hero of a hero or heroine making a journey from ignorance to wisdom. Definitions eg hubris ect.
Performed in an amplitheatre
All menvand started from chorol lyrics
God dyinisis
Dressed in goats skin, hunt why tragedy mean goasvsing
Aeschylus added a sexing actor, Sophocles added a third
Performed in may as a festival for dyionisis
Playwrites competed to win and all were performed onte same day
Each prepared three tradgedies and a comedy satyr
Plays would be related but Euripides didn't
A serviving trilogy us the Oresteia of Aeschylus
Theatre of Dionysus held 12,000 people
Choral was sung and resembles modern orchestra
Chorus would havf three parts who danced different wats around the orchestra
Chirps = dancing in a ring
Structure = exposition-rising action-climax- sallingvstory-deposition

Masks made out of cork and that have a set expression. Cone shape mouth for amplification

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