presentation ideas and reserch

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I will be performing the monologue ‘Chorus of women’ this monologue came from a Greek play called ‘Lysistrata’ it is about the city Athens when the men were at war. The women of Athens were not happy about this so they try and stop the men from fighting and in this find the confidence to stand up for their rights as women. They do the one thing they have the power to do and that is to deny the men of sexual intercourse.

 ‘Lysistrata’ was written by Aristophanes the play was written over two-thousand years ago he was a Greek comic playwright and most of his work was lost but we know he was well thought of by the people of Greece his playwrights include sex and comedy

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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. The auditorium was divided into several parts by your rank members of the council had the nearest rows to the orchestra then the young men sat together and the general public were given most of the space that could make their own choice of seats. 

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All actors were male and they wore masks these masks were used for amplephying their voices. A poet called ‘Thespis’ was the first person to use actors in ancient Greece they were called hypocrites. The city state of Athens had the political and military power in Greece during what is known as the golden age of Greece and was the epicentre of entertainment in ancient Greece. This is because of Pericles ruler of Athens at the time he believed in promoting the arts and literature this was why Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural city they are. Women were not allowed to be in the plays if there was I women part a small boy that hasn’t hit puberty yet would play the part, they used to wear wooden plat formed shoes and stuff their chest so it looked bigger.

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Life for Women in Greece-

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. (this goes with the poster up there  ^  about Artemis)