Context Homework - 26th March 2015

Today you explored two versions of the scene between Antigone and Creon. 

Which scene did you work on? 

What did you think of the style of the writing? 

How was this scene different to the other script used in the lesson? 

Did the laugauge make the characters change? 

In groups you then created a version of Antigone focusing on setting it in a specific context. By doing this you had to focus on the use of the language in the piece. 

What did your group create? 

What was the setting?

What characters were developed?

How did you use language?

Type up the notes that you made on the other groups.

Set Design Task...

You need to design a set for your own version of Antigone. You need to imagine that you'd have as much money to create this, therefore you have no limits on your ideas.

You need to think carefully about designing something that helps the audience to understand your version of the play. 

Your version should be relevant for an audience today. 

First decide where your version of Antigone would be set:

A school?

A tower block?

A nightclub?

A park?

In the future?

In a war?

It's up to you...

Then think about the shape of your space. Where are the audience?

In the round?

Traverse?

Promenade?

Colours - think carefully about the colours in your set, they can tell the audience lots.

You can draw or make your set. 

It must have some written justifications to go with your design. 

Homework - Multimedia Monday 16th March

Search on-line, a "Multimedia Theatre Production" and find a you tube clip taken from the piece. Watch it and reflect on the following question:

"Within a Theatre production, how does the use of multimedia help in its communication to an audience? What does it add to the piece?"

Additional work:

Find a review of a multimedia theatre production and see what Theatre critics have to say.  

Context Homework - Lesson 1 Thursday 19th March

Well done for a great first lesson back.

Here are the videos we watched today. You might want to watch them again to write some more notes to help with your work:

Ancient Greece: The Greatest Show On Earth:

An Introduction to Greek Tragedy:

Antigone and Creon:

Please answer the following:

You need to create a new post called:

Current Events

You will keep adding to this post over the term. It needs to become an information sheet for everything to do with the CURRENT EVENTS.

• What was happening when Antigone was created? 

• Was its creation influenced by any specific historical events?

You need to create a new post called:

Social Context of Antigone 

You will keep adding to this post over the term. It needs to become an information sheet for everything to do with the SOCIAL CONTEXT.

Answer these questions for this post:

• What do we mean by the social context?
• How did people live at the time Antigone was created?
• Who was the target audience for the piece?
• What were the needs, values and beliefs of the target audience?
• How did this influence the themes and characters of Antigone?
• What have you found out about the social context of Antigone? Think about what was going on at the time that Sophocles wrote the play. 
• Who went to the theatre?
• What was the relationship between theatre, politics and religion? 

You need to create a new post called:

CULTURAL CONTEXT

You will keep adding to this post over the term. It needs to become an information sheet for everything to do with the CULTURAL CONTEXT.

Answer these questions for this post:

• What were the performance conventions in Sophocles’ time? 
• What were the trends or fashions within the performing arts?

You need to create a new post called:

Women in Greek Theatre

Answer these questions for this post:

Here is the video link to watch. You need to make some notes when watching this.

Q - How were woman viewed in Greek Theatre? Why?

You need to create a new post called:

Exploring the text

Answer the following:

We explored two scene:

Antigone and Ismene 

• What did we focus on when exploring this scene?
• How did you explore the characters practically? 
• What did you discover about the relationship between the sisters? 
• How did this scene link to some of the information you discovered in the session about the historical context?

Antigone and Creon

• What did we focus on when exploring this scene?
• How did you explore the characters practically? 
• What did you discover about the relationship between the characters? 
• How did this scene link to some of the information you discovered in the session about the historical context?