Drama @ MSC

Todays lesson was focused on the role of the chorus in greek plays. We began the lesson by playing the game “yes, lets”. This game gave us an oppertunity to practise the skills which are involved in being a chorus member in greek theatre.

We then talked about the script of Medea and how her character was potrayed throughout the story and how the chorus carried the storyline. We were then sorted into groups and given a piece of the chorus dialoge to perform as a greek chorus. My group worked really well during this exercise and we all contributed ideas towards our performance. We added syncronised movement to our act which explained what we were saying. For example on the line “We pitty you” we all clasped one hand over our hearts with the other directed at medea and our faces turned towards her with a serious expression.

This lesson taught me how a greek chorus contributes to a performance and the impact of synchronised movement and speech. This added a great affect to our performance and lifted our characters of chorus.

Today we officially became a greek chorus. Our class have been studying the tragedy of Medea. We were to be the conscience of Medea as ‘every lady’ would think. We were her little shoulder to cry on and to give her advice through the stages of her hatred for Jason.

 Our class was split in two and given a piece of the script ‘Medea’. To be a greek chorus you must be the talk and move in the same ways. This makes it more effective and doesnt draw attention away from Medea. Our group then performed our piece in front of the class, therefore becoming a ‘greek chorus’.  

today we officially became a greek chorus. the activities we performed proved that we were. we had to construct various plays and games that releted to the topic of greek chorus… we also went a bit deeper into the play media and found out so much more about her character and how she felt. medea was the first play to really take the womans perspective in the chorus area anyway. thats really cool i reckon. its a fun subject and im learning something everyday.

by chantelle davy

Today we looked at Greek theatre and chorus in a little bit more detail from Tuesday. 

First off we did a warm up activity, we were split into three groups and played a game sort of like follow the leader but each movement had to be in unison. We each got a turn to be leader and do a movement to be followed by the others. We all did this activity pretty poorly but it was still hilarious. Then in the same group we had to come up with one minute of patterned movement (not dance), keeping a beat by clapping or stamping. I’m not to sure that my group had quite grasped the concept of the whole Greek chorus thing so ours was pretty sad, but again it was still enjoyable.

Once we had seen the others and performed ours it was time to get into that actual activity. Ms Palmer chose three sections of chorus dialogue from the play, Madea. In our three groups we had to take the dialogue, add movement to it and perform it to the class speaking and moving in unison. I think every one did really well for this one.

Bree-Anna . F  23rd Feb

Todays drama lesson was all about greek chorus’s and the way they operate. We started the lesson by a short warm up using the greek chorus’s movements to walk around the room in unison. It was like follow the leader, we each got as cfhance to choose a movement for our group to do. We then read up on the greek play medea, Miss Palmer seperated us up into groups and we acted out a section of the play we were given. My group all acted in unison, we used strong and symbolic movements along with the dialogue. I thought we worked well as a group. m.c.p

Today we learnt about Greek Theatre and the use of a chorus. We were split into groups and we played the warm up game of ”follow the leader”. The main focus of this lesson was keeping both our movements as well as our lines. Each of our groups were given a section of the chorus from the play ”Medea”. Our group were chorussing Medea and her irrational rantings. We used alont of large dr5amatic getures aswell as listening gestures to portray

Todays drama lesson was all about greek chorus’s and the way they operate. We started the lesson by a short warm up using the greek chorus’s movements to walk around the room in unison. It was like follow the leader, we each got as cfhance to choose a movement for our group to do. We then read up on the greek play medea, Miss Palmer seperated us up into groups and we acted out a section of the play we were given.

My group all acted in unison, we used strong and symbolic movements along with the dialogue. I thought we worked well as a group.

m.c.p

Today in drama we had to recite chorus peices from medea. We had to make up strong moves in unison..

We then got in a group and performed infront of the class. We couldnt do dance movements as they are more modern, we had to keep it simple because it would be harder to keep in unison with more complex movements.

Our peice was about her husband leaving Medea and she is very upset. The chorus is then trying to get her to come out so that they can comfort her.

Today we learnt about Greek Theatre and the use of a chorus.

Today in class we were asked to preform a scenario from the greek play Medea. The class was split in to two. One group had to re-enact the ritual of a rebirth of king Aeson, father of Jason, where he was to be born younger. The second group had to re-enact the slaughtering of a sheep,  which then had its golden fleece sheered off and given to Medea, she in turn took this and gave it to her son and daughter as protection.

The first group -made up of about 7 students- performed their scenario by starting out on stage.  Three or four students were seen standing around in a circle with hands in the air. In the middle of the students was another student whom was to be the king being reborn. The remainder students-2 to 3- were to act out chopping up the king while in the ‘pot’-circle of students. As a end product you had the students acting as the pot humming and chanting while the king was slowly being chopped into pieces by the other students.

The second group re-enacted the slaughtering of a sheep by also appering on stage already, though the student and sheep-also a student was dragged on stage. Here the sheep was brought up to the king where  he would sacrifice the sheep and remove its fleece.  The group used a blanket for the fleece. Once the king had removed the fleece he held it up in the air and started to chant where the rest of the group folowed.

All in all i enjoyed doing this activity greatly and cannot wait until next lesson. Goodluck to the other drama students.

Courtney