DRM100Y1 Lecture : Drama - Monday October 29.docx
10 Dec 2012
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We have to take a huge leap in imagination with new types of drama. We will be building bridges among these different types of drama (have to point out differences as well as similarities) The things that are not visible, that are not of the flesh. In greek tragedy, we think of the here and now and stuff that is beyond the here and now. At the end of the bacchae, dionysus is elevated into the sky (beyond the here and now). The term greek tragedy is about a sacrificial goat used to purge . Oedipus is a goat, he is sacrificed for the good of the people. The people come pray at the temple of apollo and pray for release -> oedipus comes forward and promises to release the people. He is then sacrificed for the community (pays a very heavy price). A ritual has a structure that is repeatable (the ritual has been done multiple times) over time.
