Greek drama
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Drama Levels
In Drama you are assessed on three main areas, Making, Performing
and Responding.
Making: relates to your ability to work within a group to create a piece of
drama; how well you work with others, the ideas you give and how you
develop your drama as a team.
Performing: relates to how confidently and effectively you perform
characters in a piece of drama. You may choose to use specific drama
techniques to enhance your work.
Responding: relates to your ability to assess your own and others’ work.
You need to comment on their strengths, weaknesses, how the
performance could be developed and try to use drama vocabulary when
discussing work.
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO IMPROVE IN DRAMA
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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
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(M) I can help my group incorporate one aspect of Greek Drama into our
performance.
(P) I can take part in the performance and be heard and face the audience.
(P) I can use at least one element of Greek Drama in my practical performance.
(R) I can suggest general ways to improve my work.
(M) I can suggest to my group how to use two or three aspects of Greek Drama in
our performance.
(P) I can demonstrate a range of vocal colours, gestures and movements in my
performance.
(P) I can use two or three elements of Greek Drama confidently in my
performance.
(R) I can suggest ways to improve my work using full sentences, drama terms
and I am able to focus on the elements of Greek Drama.
(M) I can lead my group to use a range of imaginative ideas using all the
elements of Greek Drama in an interesting manner.
(P) I can create a well-rounded character using voice, movement and gesture
imaginatively.
(P) I can perform in a style that is completely suitable to Greek Drama and use a
range of elements.
(R) I can suggest ways to improve my work using full sentences; drama terms
and I am able to focus on the elements of Greek Drama and consider how I might
use these elements in future drama work.
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GREEK DRAMA
List as many facts as you can that you learnt today about Greek Drama:
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THEATRE FORMATIONS
In the Round
End On/Proscenium Arch
Traverse
Promenade
Thrust
Match each picture with the appropriate theatre formation name from the list above.
Then list one good thing about this shape and one negative thing about this shape.
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OEDIPUS
In Thebes, a son is born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta. The King and Queen know a
terrible prediction has been made: that their son will kill his father and marry his own mother.
In order to avoid the prophecy coming true, King Laius and Queen Jocasta spike the baby’s
feet and abandon him in the countryside. A shepherd finds the baby, takes him to Corinth
and gives the baby to the King of Corinth to adopt. The baby is named Oedipus, which
means ‘swollen feet’.
One day in Corinth, someone insults Oedipus, telling him he is not the King of Corinth’s son.
This worries Oedipus greatly, so he visits the Oracle and asks who his father is. The Oracle
just repeats the prophecy and says that Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.
Oedipus runs away to stop the prediction coming true (still believing that the King of Corinth
is his father). On the road from Corinth, a strange old man is rude to Oedipus. Oedipus loses
his temper and kills him, not knowing that it is the King of Thebes, his real father.
Oedipus arrives at Thebes. Everyone knows that the King has just been killed, but they are
more worried by the Sphinx monster who has taken over the city. Oedipus defeats the
Sphinx and becomes a hero. As a reward he is told he can marry the Queen Jocasta. Not
knowing she is his mother, he marries her.
A messenger arrives to tell Oedipus that King Polybus has died, so he is now King of
Corinth. Oedipus is relieved that Polybus is not dead because of him, but doesn’t want to go
back to Corinth in case he marries his own mother. The messenger tells Oedipus not to
worry about the prediction because he was adopted. Oedipus asks who his real parents
were. The messenger says he got Oedipus from an old shepherd.
One day, there is a plague in the city of Thebes, and the people beg their hero, Oedipus, to
get rid of the plague. Oedipus asks the Oracle what he should do. The Oracle says that he
should find the person who killed King Laius in order to get rid of the plague. Oedipus sends
for the one witness who saw the murder. It’s an old shepherd.
The old shepherd who saw King Laius being killed arrives. He was the one who gave baby
Oedipus to the messenger in the first place. He tells them that Oedipus is King Lauis and
Queen Jocasta’s son. Oedipus realises the prediction has come true: the old man he killed
was his father and he has married his own mother. He rushes off in despair and rips out his
own eyes; he is then left to wander, alone, in the countryside. A messenger tells us that
Queen Jocasta has hanged herself.
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UNITY OF TIME AND PLACE
One of the primary elements of Greek Drama was that all plays had a
unity of time and place.
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Another element of Greek Drama was the use of the messenger. The
messenger was important because_____________________________
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THOUGHT TRACK
A thought track is when you freeze in character and express
vocally to the audience the thoughts that are going through the
character’s head.
In the space below, write a thought track for Oedipus for the moment he
discovers he has killed his father and married his mother. What thoughts
do you think go through his head?
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The Greek Chorus
 Choral Speech: Everybody
does the same words and does
the same actions at the same
time.
 Gossipy old people talking
among themselves.
 One main speaker, whom the
others perhaps echo.
 One
main speaker, while others
join in on certain words.
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MASKS
Create/draw a design for a mask based on the facial expression
mask used in class. The mask should be in colour.
Also include two or three sentences describing
what the situation was that caused this expression.
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Mask
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GREEK DRAMA QUIZ
1. Name three different types of theatre space. (3 marks)
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2. Approximately how many people could fit into a Greek amphitheatre? (1 mark)
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3. What is the front section of a Greek stage called and why is it important?
(2 marks)
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4. In the story of Oedipus, what prediction was made about him? (2 marks)
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5. Explain what happened to Oedipus as a baby (include why he was called
Oedipus). (5 marks)
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6. What were the names of Oedipus’s mother and father? (2 marks)
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7. Where were they king and queen of? (1 mark)
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8. Explain what happens to the main characters at the end of
the story of Oedipus. (4 marks)
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9. Explain what a chorus is, and what it does, using a modern day example to help
you. (3 marks)
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10. What are the two unities of Greek theatre? (3 marks)
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11. How did messengers help plays to stick to the two Unities? (1 mark)
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PEER EVALUATION
WWW:
I thought that this person’s/group’s use of (insert appropriate drama
skill) was extremely effective. This was demonstrated when (insert
appropriate moment from the performance). Their use of (insert
appropriate drama skill) enhanced the performance because (explain
how the skill made the performance effective).
Your evaluation using the example above to help you:
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Your evaluation using the example above to help you:
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PEER ASSESSMENT
GROUP
WHAT WENT WELL
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EVEN BETTER IF
My Greek Theatre Evaluation
1. List the Greek Theatre skills that you used in your performance and say
where in the story you used them.
2. The character I played in the performance was…
3. The drama skills I used to show this character were…
Think about how you used your voice, body language, posture, gesture.
4. I think that my character was particularly effective when…
What parts of the story do you think you did really well in? To get a better
level tell me why.
5. Other skills that we used in our performance were…
Did you use anything like still images or flashbacks, maybe even physical
theatre?
6. I think my performance was effective/not effective because…
Think about your drama skills and did you use any Greek Theatre skills?
7. To improve my work next term, I will work hard on…
Don’t say rehearse more. Think about your staging and drama skills, which
one could you improve on?
Narrator
Body Language
Audience
Chorus
Fate
Still Image
Messenger
Facial Expression
Frozen Mask
Gesture
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LEVEL
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
3
(M) I can help my group incorporate one aspect of Greek
Drama into our performance.
(P) I can take part in the performance and be heard and face
the audience.
(P) I can use at least one element of Greek Drama in my
practical performance.
(R) I can suggest general ways to improve my work.
(M) I can suggest to my group how to use two or three
aspects of Greek Drama in our performance.
(P) I can demonstrate a range of vocal colours, gestures and
movements in my performance.
(P) I can use two or three elements of Greek Drama
confidently in my performance.
(R) I can suggest ways to improve my work using full
sentences, drama terms and I am able to focus on the
elements of Greek Drama.
(M) I can lead my group to use a range of imaginative ideas
using all the elements of Greek Drama in an interesting
manner.
(P) I can create a well-rounded character using voice,
movement and gesture imaginatively.
(P) I can perform in a style that is completely suitable to
Greek Drama and use a range of elements.
(R) I can suggest ways to improve my work using full
sentences; drama terms and I am able to focus on the
elements of Greek Drama and consider how I might use these
elements in future drama work.
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5
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SELF
ASSESSMENT
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