What does the Chorus do?

In unit 3 of my Drama course, we read A Raisin in the Sun to examine the role of the matriarch. We also learned about Greek tragedies and what they have done to superheroes to make them seem more life like. Also we looked at the chorus in a play and song, and how they say the moral in the story. We went to the Cultural Center to look at paintings, and to practice techniques to write a Greek chorus. For this Action Project we picked a character from Raisin in the Sun and to show that characters in the play have their moments of glory and failure just like a Greek tragedy. I picked Walter from the play because he is someone who has a lot of problems with trying to be a hero. The purpose of this was to see how important a chorus is in a play, song, and book. Please enjoy the chorus I made to resemble a Greek tragedy, a Raisin in the Sun.

The Stone Journal

For unit 2 of my Drama class we looked at the three plays, first it was A Doll's House, next was The Little Foxes, and last was Marie Antoinette. With in these plays the main theme was what women's roles were when it came to society, and should it they be equal to men. In A Doll's house they hit on that subject by talking showing how the main character is controlled by everyone and then how she finally gets the power to control her husband. In The Little Foxes they hit on this subject by showing how the women had all the control over the other main characters, who were men. With Marie Antoinette they actually showed how society controlled her life. Some FEs we went on were going to watch the play Marie Antoinette and got to interview the understudy. Now to the action project, we had to write a script with us as one of the characters, Nora from A Doll's House, and a historical/mythical figure. I chose Medusa as my mythical character to use in my play, because I like Greek Mythology so much. My play in a summary is about, Me and Nora as friends, meet Medusa and have to battle her, finding the what society can do to people.

 

Kate The Tamer!

For Unit 1 of my Drama course we read Taming of The Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, and we talked about how the 16th century had such a big role in effecting the play he wrote. As Shakespeare grew, he soon went into the role of writing sonnets, mainly because they were popular and he wanted money for his. Bringing me to the action project, we had to write a sonnet directed towards a character in the play. In the sonnet it would address them about gender roles in marriage, and how they could use help with it. I chose to write to Kate, the shrew, and tell her about how she needs to make her relationship with Petruchio more equal. Enjoy the poem!

“My hand is ready, may it do him ease”

Did you mean that, or did you just say that to please?

Your power, your shrewishness, your pride, you forswear

when fitted for a hat you loved, from your head, you let him tear

Why let a man tame the only thing that makes you whole?

Instead of looking under the tree to find the present, you looked down the stocking to find the coal

You are the bondmaid,a jest, and the doll that was tied to strings when you met

You are the bug and he was the knave with a net

Stand up for yourself, become equals using your stomach, your air

When standing up you become peaceful, stopping the attack, and make it all fair

Tame the tammer and let him see and learn

He will learn not to have tried to tame the powerful, and he will burn

Have you learned what I am saying, make it equal don’t let someone control everything

You are strong and free willed, and soon to be, loving