Lysistrata monologue ideas

while I'm saying my monologue I'm going to have pictures of women though out the years so the audience can see how the statuse of women has changed my monologue intends to chalenge the state. In the monologue 'Chorus Of Women' she says "what matters that i was born a woman, if I can cure your misfortunes?"

At the begining she says "Nay, never play the brave man." I thought I'd put up different ways to say the word NO and then when I start put the pictures of the wonem on the screen.

monologue of Lysistrata / Artemis - (independant study)

Artemis is a goddess and is known as a fierce hunter as well as a protector and is also known as:

·        The goddess of the night,

·        The huntress,

·        The goddess of fruitfulness,

·        The goddess of childbirth,

·        Lady of the Beasts,

·        The woodland goddess,

·        The bull goddess,

·        The personification of the moon,

·        The eternal virgin

The goddess had a ruthless side to her, she killed a hunter called ‘Orion’ for either defying the goddess, trying to seduce one of her companions, the virgin Opis, or attempting to personally ravish her. Artemis sent a scorpion to sting his heel, and by doing so killing him. But when Orion was subsequently changed into a constellation, Artemis made sure the scorpion received the same honour.

Artemis, is said to be the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She is the supposed twin sister of Apollo in most accounts. However, in more ancient traditions it was recounted that Artemis was the mid-wife for the birth of Apollo and his twin sister. Artemis is one of the prominent goddesses, and the lore that surrounds her is as colorful as she was proclaimed to be.

Artemis

Shakespearian Language and Develop Appropriate Vocal Skills

what I need to know to succeed in clasical theatre (Shakespearian Language)

• To remember elements of language relating to Renaissance scripts. 

• To appropriately physically and vocally interpret a Shakespearian scene through performance  

• To justify an interpretation of a Shakespearian monologue through performance choices and skills

Advice from my tutor:

The majority of people don’t feel that they understand the language that Shakespeare and other classical playwrights use; but don’t panic.

In order to investigate Shakespearian language and be able to interpret the intentions and meaning behind it, we need to begin by looking at language itself and how the language of Shakespeare’s day is different to the language that we use now.

practical exercise

To look at a peom by Lewis Carrol and complete a questionair we did this to prover even though most of the words were made up and uses some old english we could still under stand what the peom was trying to tell us and if we could interpet this peom where half the words are made up we could just as easily read a clasical / Shakespearian play.

JABBERWOCKY

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
    Did gyre and gimble in the wade;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
    And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
    The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
    The frumious Bandersnatch!“

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
    Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree.
    And stood awhile in thought.

by Lewis Carrol

1. What did the slithy toves do in the wade?

*Gyre and gimble

2. How were the borogoves?

*All mimsy

3. Which three things should you beware of, or stay away from?

*The Jabberwock, The Jubjub bird and the Bandersnatch

4. Describe the Bandersnatch in one word…

*Frumious

5. What kind of sword did ‘he’ have?

*Vorpal

6. What kind of enemy did ‘he’ seek?

*Manxome

Independent Study on Ancient Greese

The word theatre comes from the Greek word theatron, which means - ‘The place where people listen’.

The Greeks would build the theatres on hill sides. If the surface was rocky semicircles were cut out, layer above layer, but if the hill side was soft an excavation was made in the hillside and lined with rows of stone benches and steps leading up the rows were often lined with marble. The auditorium was divided by broad concentric belts, named diazomata, which served as lobbies.

Even though the Greeks worshipped goddesses as well as god’s women were thought as less than men, they often had to stay in the house at the back or upper part of the house to be kept away from men they weren’t related to. Women were married at the age of 14 to an older man and there job was to bear a son.

the renaissance

The word renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth and started in the 1500, before and during the time of theatre People used to go to hangings for entertainment and go bear baiting (terrorising a bear) on a Thursday theatres were closed so people went bear bating instead of the theatre. The renaissance ended around the 1600 and Theatre stoped completely when the puritans got into power, after england got the monarchi back into power the Victorians Made england prim and proper making theatre a more respected form of art. Like theatre today the wrighters of the day wrote about what was happening at that time. In the that time The 'church of England' was formed, we were exploring other country's and invading them and getting invaded by other country's, the black plage started (and the people at the time were not very hygienic). The people at that time believed in Myths and magic and thought that fairies, goblins and witches and thought that they would punish the innocent at night many people were accused of being a witch. In these times they were very religious and everyone believed in god but they were getting more independence and writers wrote more challenging play wrights, exploring issues no one dared to speak about before the church of England was formed. * Play writers - Shakespeare's work - their is at least 2 of his plays that have been lost but 38 survive and he had a company called 'Chamberlains man'. -Ben Jonson. -Christopher Marlowe. -James Burbage who built the first purpose theatre.  -Richard Burbage. Most theatres were built out side of the city as they would have more freedom to wright about risky things. Two examples of theatres are 'The Rose 1587' and 'The swan 1595'. renaissance started because the culture was changing and people wanted to learn more about it.