19th September

Classical notes

Aim:
To develop knowledge and understanding of the Trojan women as a Greek myth (before, during, after)

In three groups capture as a cartoon strip with captions
Groupe 1: before
Groupe 2: the play
Groupe 3: after

Athena posidon

Cassandra

Andromache

Helen

Astyanax buried

7th Sept lesson 3

Chloe & becky
Euripedies
Born 480 bc
One of three play writes at the time
He didn't approve ove the audiences superspitions
Pacifist, free thinker and an humanitarian in a time when they were overshadowed by tolerance and violance
He was contaveesial so didn't win competitions
He chose to live most of his life alone with his books in a cave in salami
He was admired for his sypathy especially for women
Shocking that some of his worm characters didn't want children
Focussed on the inner working of characters
He was one oc the most tragic playwrite
Men shock be heresies giving voice to women
Lover a truth and wanted the characters to confront personal issues
Introduction of comman man eg. Anti heroic showing people the reality of their miliatry hero's
Sycoligical dramatist
Famous plays
Alcestis, Medea, Cyclops, Hippolytus,
Harackles children

Taran & Hayley
Greek theatre audiences
Really big only source of entertainment
Dioysis theatre in Athens once held 14,000 for one show
Audience talk at the start a single actor would come on to set the audience tipsy attention
Then comedy performer and a slapstick duet
Audience allowed to interior and throw food if they didn't like it
They would be given treats to keep then entertained


Greek festivals
Apollo
Athene
Dionysus
Posedion
Zeus
Lots lots more
July was the first month if their year
Arica historical region of Greece
Greeks history began around 700bc
Men dressed in goats skin cus they were believed to be sexuLly potent
Dionysus was honoured with City Dionysus
Lead by drunken men dressed
Revelry filled
Tribes competed against each other
Men dominate male god festivals
Women dominate female god festivals
Parades, dances
Men and women didn't mix in festivals
Sacrifice anaimals
Some attend out of curiosity, shows contests and many bring goods at all sorts to be sold
Show of some special learning, many works

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

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

20th June period two

Aim to dwveloep a knowledge and understanding of the plans the Trojan women by euripidies

Summer set up blog fir racheal's
One Trojan wome
One a mid summer biggs dream

Recap 2 units (pink)

Recap summer hw presentation

Actors log
Dates
Aims
Write up each lesson
Analyse what was learnt
Presentation background info
Rehearsal tehniques
Rehearsals
Character research and analysis

Family tree characters and plot
Start play read through

Lesson

Trojans
Priam. King of troy
Hecuba * queen of troy
Hector. Eldest son
Paris. Beautiful son
Cassandra *. Daughter priestess to Apollo prophet, sacred virgin
Polyxena. Daughter
Andromache*. Wife of hector
Astyanax *. Son of hector and andomsche
chorus *. Women of troy

Greeks
Menalaus *. King of Sparta
Agamemnon. Jig of Mycenae
Odysseus. King of ithica
Talthybiuis* Greek messenger
Helen* Wife of menalaus

Gods
Proseidon god of sea
Athene. Goddess of war neice of proseidon via Zeus

Structure

Prolgue: prosiedon and athene
Episode 1: Cassandra (Agamemnon)
Episode 2: Andomache (Astryanax)
Episode 3: Helen (Menalaus)
Episode 4/ Exodus = exit scene: burial of Astyanax womens exit Hecuba tells women to run into flames to avoid their fates, greeks stop them HEcuba tells the women to deal with ther fates

Epeius, athene, Hera, Poseidon,