Medea: Greek Theatre

Day 7, 19th September

Medea Greek Theatre.

In todays lesson with Sharon we started off with vocal warmups to work on projection as well as walking around the room to develop our special awareness and get our body's warmed up, we then had to get our scripts and work in our groups for Medea, seeing that there was only us 2 groups in this room we had more space than last time and we had to use more space to exaggerate our piece and learn to be aware of our space, we also practiced aiming our voices and pin pointing our eyes to a certain place in the room to make it seem more believable/realistic. During Medea we worked on our lines, even changed lines, we also had a new member Michael join our group so we had to share lines around the group.

After performing in front of the other group we were told to try to combine both performances together since the other group were doing the first half of the extract and we were doing the second half. So I said to the class that we could have the first group perform and we freeze frame in the back of their performance, then at the end of theirs we enter through the middle of them, and they go behind us and become a part of the group and just show facial expressions and body language to exaggerate the emotions felt. Then we all said 1 thing that we learnt during this lesson, I said about the importance of exaggeration, the reason I chose this is because of the idea of having the other group behind us made me learn that them exaggerating how we felt was very powerful to the audience since it was almost like having an aura around us

• The importance of exaggeration

The reason exaggeration is so important is because, emotions cant always be felt by the audience so sometime having a background effect like how we had the group behind us portraying our emotions brings out that emotion and creates a type of atmosphere, but don't get this wrong, exaggeration is just as important as under playing. Other examples of exaggeration can be in the play Antigone when Creon and Haemon are arguing about Haemon's girlfriend, both of the characters lines need to be shown clearly since they are very strong.