Wednesday 4th january

This was our first day of the classical theatre unit, therefore in the morning sonya (our tutor) explained what classical theatre was (theatre before 1850's) and involved, also what work we need to complete for the unit. in the morning we undertook a small activitity, this involved presenting handouts (The Greek Theatre) in an interesting and engaging form, rather than just reading them out plainly. my group chose to use role-play to do this, we acted out what the presenter was explaining in a humorous manner to engage an audience. we performed these to the second years in the afternoon.
In the afternoon we learnt much more about Greek theatre and amphitheatres, we created a human ampitheatre standing in a semi-circle and positioning ourselves to demonstrate correct places for everything and everybody in an amphitheatre. after this we got into groups and acted out a given scene, my group got Lysistrata (a greek scene), this gave us a greater understaning of the language and style of plays which the Greek would perform E.G they are obssessed with war, women with power and sexuality.  Below is an example of a Greek ampitheatre, which gives an idea of the size and design.