English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Laius, Hamartia, Ancient Greece
6 Mar 2015
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Drama is a communal experience registering responses of people around you. Theatre involves multiple senses, occurs in real time, more participation, engaged in way you are not in silent reading, sense of unpredictability. Always sense that this is happening in front of you for the first time makes drama feel more alive, more in the moment. Drama is storytelling experienced in the body as much as in the mind. Theatre evolves out of sacramental ritual was not entertainment or education; it was a means of veneration: honouring the gods who grant life. Festival of dionysus 4 days all work suspended came to venerate the gods athens gates opened to all people people all come to jam into the theatre - competition between plays. Actors acted w masks on masks made of cork, curious capacity to amplify the voice, also obscured the face actor had to use voice and hands to communicate feelings.
