Saturday, 1 October 2016

Greek theatre

 During the previous two  lesson , we have been creating our own version of the tale Oedipus and the sphinx. This tale is a common greek tale whom the greeks have formed. In the last two lessons we had to act out our way to interpret the first two scenes which are:

1: this scene tells the moment when a fine shepherd finds a baby in his fields and decides to bring it to the king and queen who have never had a baby before.
2: this scene is technically based on the first one it's just showing the shepherd bringing the baby to the king and queen.

After creating the actual scene we had to take pictures of the interpretation and now I will discus with you how and why I choose to show my character this way. Here are the pictures we made of the two separate scenes:

Now  I was one of the sheep in this scene. you can see I tried to regulate my hands like a fist to create some sort of their hands. In the picture I also like normal sheep i was regulating my teeth by making them show, pretending I was eating which suits my name in the scene which was "Eater". Though mainly usually sheep like to eat up clothes which I was pretending to do. Since I wanted to show the baby was there. then you see I was like my companions bent down on my knees to show the size of a normal sheep.  then obviously at the scene I was making sheep movements of medium around speed. I was also making sheep sounds for example [ Bhheeeaaa], and I repeated this over and over to show me as a sheep.


This one I would call one of my favourite scenes since I preferably think I personally did much better acting this scene from the other one. The only down fall would of been that we needed unity. I think that we might of been able of letting a few joined lines in and then we would of made a change. however in this scene I am the queen. I show this since i am crossing my legs in a girl like way. And as you can see I have handed over my hand to the gentlemen by my side. In the actual   scene I use an english accent to show a queen and i curtsy to show my formal greeting as a queen. And as a women would do in presence of a baby would be amazed that it has been handed to her, and would do anything to deliver the charge and hand her her thank you. In this case I hand the shepherd an offering  of 500 dollars.  
 

1 comment:

  1. *Please use capital letters at the beginning of every sentence, for all names, and for 'I'.

    This is a great effort Alexia; you have followed the correct structure for your answers and tried to write in detail. I especially like that you wrote a kind of introduction. You demonstrate that you understand how a performer can use their body and voice to communicate their character to an audience. To get a higher grade you just need to develop your answers further by writing more specifically and avoiding colloquial language. You can include specific examples of dialogue and continue developing your descriptive explanations of your use of body language. Well done. 6/8 Criteria A

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