Unit 9 & 10 - Acting Technique & Performance

  Commedia Dell'Arte Exploration Commedia Dell'Arte is a type of theatre that is completely improvised. It includes masks and massively exaggerated movements. In Commedia, you speak in complete gibberish so you must tell the story through face and action. To distinguish the characters from each other, you move by leading with a certain body part. Exploration of Commedia Style With Vocal Sounds To ease us into Commedia, we started by improvising a scene in a supermarket but spoke in gibberish. The aim was to be able to get an audience to understand the scene even though we aren't talking and outright saying what is happening.  Exploration Using Masks and Exaggeration To develop our acting with the Commedia style, we started by assigning ourselves characters and wore they assigned mask. We then looked out what body part they follow with so that we could understand how our character walks around the stage. My character was Brighella. Brighella walks upright with the chest lead...

 

 

  Antigone Exploration Context Antigone is a tragedy written by Sophocles.  Laius, King of Thebes, and his wife, Jocasta, have a son called, Oedipus. They receive a prophecy that Oedipus will murder his father. To avoid this, Laius and Jocasta leave the infant alone to perish. The prophecy becomes true as Oedipus survives and kills his father. Oedipus then marries his mother, Jocasta and together they have 4 children: Eteocles, Polynices, Ismene and Antigone. When they discover the terrible truth, Oedipus blinds himself and curses his sons, saying they will kill each other, Oedipus dies in exile. Eteocles and Polynices decide top rule Thebes together as King in alternate years. After his year, Eteocles refuses to abdicate. This begins a bloody battle between the brothers and there armies. At the 7th gate of Thebes they kill each other. This results in Eteocles and Polynices' Uncle and Jocasta's brother to take to the throne as he is the only living male heir. Th...