Greek Project (Week 4)

We started with an exercise that worked on the chorus's lines, we took an extract from the script and instead of saying our line standing still directly to the audience, we walked around the space as journalists and when it came to your line you had to either make a huge gesture or stand on something, this helped with the flow of lines and controlling the breath as it was very physical. After we said the lines in a different style whether it be insincere, arrogant or childish etc. which helped to make your line individual to your character in the chorus rather than saying it together in the same tone, which was boring. We ended this exercise by having someone sit in the middle of us and then we had to say our line so that the viewer would be drawn to us.

Later we looked back at the scene between Helen and Electra, looking closely at the chorus this time and how we could make it more effective, in this scene we wanted the chorus to pose as Helen's servants but also be listening in for information for our "news stories" as we were playing journalists, so we did a lot of changes in poses between our listening stances.

We went back to the text that we had previously worked on Monday and started to look at how our individual characters in the chorus would walk around the room, this was because the way we staged this scene is by having each person come in, in a cannonball style to say their lines, but everyone was doing something similar, so we changed how we came in and also how the lines were said.

When I had done my character study today I found this image when I typed in Orestes, and for me it symbolises the fact he cannot see past the revenge he has against his mother, I really like the makeup that is used as it could be something that stands out in the play for the character, and that maybe as he gets further into the play, once he gets more angry and more lost the colour changes darker and darker, I was looking at this because I was wondering what Orestes would wear in this
performance as we want it to look timeless.