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In particular Greek theatre significantly flourished between the years 550BC - 220BC. A majority of these plays were festivals honouring and dedicated to the god Dionysus, which was often held in Athens. There were three dramatic genres that emerged from this which was; tragedy, comedy and satyr.

Hence the picture, the others were built from stone and were manufactured in a circular pattern; is allowed the audience to have a impeccable view of the actors and hear what was being said clearly.

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Dionysus is the god of fertility, wine, fruit, vegetation,insanity ... this links back to the play "the land flows with wine... he land flows with honey" and how Dionysus in an intricate part of the tragedy and how much he is hailed and praised for his hard work.

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Relating to the final performance, the assemble woman were woman were significantly oppressed and dressed up as men to decide the sort in an attempt to pass laws that gave women privileges. one of which was that sex should be compulsory between men and women of all ages. This further explains and explores all the crude jokes that are displayed in asembally Women throughout.

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on the 10th of September, my class and I were introduced to a range of Greek there and started rehearsing and focused on particular parts of the individual plays. While being slit into groups we decided on on a comedic and tragic play from the bunch.

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On the following week we as a class practiced some exercises and games to help us embody these characters deeper. For example Kos gave us make that were complexly blank and had us pick from a bowl of folded paper that had different feelings ad emotions on them. Our job as actors was to use our body language to fully portray the particular feeing on the paper (without using facial expressions considering we was wearing the mask). this activity fully helped us embody the emotion to the max with or body so that the audience could understand. This links back to the Greek Theatre considering that a majority of the acting was exaggerated or "over the top", so while emphasising our movements and actions - we as able to physically apply this to our play.

In my opinion just from this little exercise, our body language pertaining to the text was far more pronounced.

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Overall the performance as a whole was incredibly successful considering the purpose of the was met during the comedy and the Greek tragedy. For example, during the Greek tragedy the audience remained intrigued and frightened (to a degree), considering we all wore the expressionless masks on the back of our heads to create and eerie presence. Additionally, the comedy was successful swell conserving the comedy was played by three individual groups , and all performances evoked laughter and joy rom the audience. This was executed through breaking the 4th wall when presenting the jokes to the audience and overall

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On the 13th of October the performance took place. just before the audience arrived all the groups ran through an intricate tech run. this involved piecing the lighting and music to specific cues that was embedded in the text, as well as having the actors (including myself) become familiar with them ; along with gathering costumes that correctly suited the individual characters. This enhanced the play significantly considering the individual spotlights focused the audience on the line that was being said and created a vivid atmosphere overall.

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An issue that was unfortunately a regular occurrence was absent actors in our peice. When attending lessons sometimes people would be absent from rehearsals this made it incredibly hard to go over lines and act to a decent degree considering certain cues relied on certain lines. what I did when this was an occurrence was take the time to go over my lines and make sure that I was complexly off script, this made sure that when that classmate came back I was ready to act and all the had to to was reflect the performance. In addition to rehearsing with missing teammates, another solution was going over lines with another classmate and recording that preformance. this helped remember where I left off and what I had left to improve

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Moreover, another obstacle was the pronunciation of some of the words in the chorus of the script. Considering the greek production is centuries old; a majority of my classmates and I had difficulty saying some of the words., after repetitive run-throughs and help from each other, the chorus began to sound more uniformed and harmonised. On occasion, a singular word had to be changed considering we couldn't pronounce it despite weeks of studying.

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A couple days later Kos introduced us to a grounding exercise called "do nothing". And just as it implies; it's when you do absolutely nothing. A chair is put in the middle of the stage and and the nominee has to walk from one side of the wings to the chair in complete neutral; and be able to sit on the chair without doing nothing more that walking and breathing. Although the excursive may seem pointless, it was extremely crucial - as actors it allowed us to complexly forget about the audience watching us and put on an authentic performance without seeming too tense or too relaxed. By doing "nothing" it also allowed us individually to maintain a clear trace of thought and allow our bodies to complexly absorb ourself within the performance .

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