Medea

Medea is a play written in 431 by a famous playwright named Euripides during what was referred to as the common era this was not the text we used. We are looking at an adaption by Franca Rame which is a as a one woman show which we are interpreting and use as a group and dividing lines up as we go along. As we are looking at this we all performance as different characters which shoes our range of skill as we must change how we talk and appear in our body language this is a challenging part of the script as we must work completely in sync to achieve an ensembled piece of theatre. In the practice we split of in to two groups and tackled different parts of the play. The first group looked at the first paragraph which was performed in an abstract manner with characters freezing and coming alive at different points as this developed it became an artistic piece with movements becoming bigger and bigger. Along with ending in a very finite ending as all actor were repeating the phrase “stop her being so stupid” then one character says ‘stop’ overall to put a finally end to the performance. The second group looked at the second paragraph and decided to go for a realistic take on the paragraph. This was done in a ensemble manner as well. With this they grouped together as group of friends worrying about Medea in this they allowed themselves to be showed as a caring group with the same emotions while keeping their individual characters. Through this they we able to show an extra dimension to the script by having multiple people convey there individual emotions.