Greek tragedy
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 05-05-15 14:22
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- The conventions and production of tragedies in fifth-century Athens
- Theatre
- Performed in open air and in daylight
- The Theatre at Dionysus at Athens
- where are the surviving Tragedies would of been performed
- people would sit on the ground or on wooden seats
- seated 15,000 people
- bowl shaped enhances acoustics
- a pin drop in the orchestra could be heard in the back row
- Orchestra
- This is where the Orchestra dance
- contained the alter of Dionysus
- religious festival
- first temple
- religious festival
- Parados
- the pathways where the chorus enter
- Skene
- used to store props
- place where actors got changed
- used as a building in plays
- eg Medea's house
- Auditorium
- seating area for the audience
- Diazoma
- access for the audience
- Actors
- first actor
- protangonistes
- second actor
- deuteragonist
- all three actors were male
- played multiple characters
- Quality's needed
- strong voices
- versatile
- range of characters
- stamina
- length messenger speeches
- strong facial expressions and gestures
- act on the stage
- first actor
- The chorus
- about 15 men
- Sophocles and Euripides the chorus rarely occupied more than 1/4 of the play
- choral odes are used to transition between episodes of acting
- However in the Medea they don't have a formal choral ode
- allowed time for the actors to change as well as to indicated a passage of time
- eg Antigone allowing to the Guard to go and catch Antigone in the act
- choral odes are used to transition between episodes of acting
- the chorus didn't only sing they also danced
- accompanies with the musical instruments of a lyre, a flute
- Costumes
- wore a rope called a chiton
- robe was richly patterned
- chorus wore a similar robe but it would be appropriate for their role
- tragic actors wore boots with platform soles and heels
- mask
- included hair and facial hair
- portrayed exaggerated emotions
- wore a rope called a chiton
- Mechanical Devices
- ekkyklema
- wooden wheeled platform
- used to display tableaux
- wheeled on and off though the central doors of the stage building
- Mechane
- crane used to lift actors playing god onto the roof of the skene
- portrayed the mortal plane
- eg Medea in her chariot pulled by dragons
- ekkyklema
- The audience
- Women seem to have been allowed by its uncertain if many did
- boys went with their slave tutors
- entry was two obols
- from the Theoric fund state funds would allow everyone to go if they wished
- middle fifth century
- people would take their own cushion
- food and drink was sold at the theatre
- Theatre
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