I chose to study the mannerisms of Larry in particular:
- Repeating others lines
- Pathetically flirtatious and forward
- Hiding from fizzy water but failing in his attempts
- Perfect comedic timing
Lysistrata is an old fashioned comedy written by Aristophanes in 411BC. At the time that the play was written the Athenians were involved in Peloponnesian war (431-404 BC). The play is a fictitious story about a woman who decides to try to stop the war by convincing the women of warring nations to stop having sex with their husbands until they agree to stop fighting. In the play Lysistrata is also responsible for the occupation for the occupation of the Acropolis, which holds the state treasury.
We were put in pairs and given a script to devise a short sketch from. To start we all shortened our linesas much as possible as again it is in expression and movements that count. When performing the piece we found it more effective a funny to give it a pantomime quality. We over exaggerated our movements and the characters movements. For example the male gave a lot of feministic gestures towards the girl. After we showed them all we found that the bigger a movemant is the funnier it is and so was a greater comic success.
The work that you have completed so far is very good as you have identified the key features of Greek theatre ('use of large, exaggerated gestures), and you have commented on why these key features exist ('because the audience could not hear all of the speech'). You have also identified which exercises that we have done in lessons ('actioning words in the script) and indicated how the exercises relate to the genre (the creation of large gestures so that the audience can understand what is going on).
ReplyDeleteRemember, when you move onto other genres, that you will need to compare and contrast the genres.