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points

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arguments
director
dramatic elements
key theatre makers
performance style and influences
key moments
audience
other art forms
aims and intentions of production
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themes

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womens role in society
justice
impacts of war
catharsis
gossip
power
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political influences

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Mary beads manifesto ‘women and power’

Donald Trump

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Hegeln German Philosopher quote

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‘The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history’

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key questions for song of Vengeance

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Who could you punish? How could you punish them?
What if? What if someone was to blame?
What if someone hurts you? Do you hurt them?
What if it’s not alright?
What if you’re angry?
What if you have more hate than love?
What if you stop giving a shit?

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Brecht

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The Archetype
Anti-illusion
Gestus
Montage
Spass
V effect
Chorus
Repetition
Multi-rolling
Narration
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Directors

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Kerry Frampton
Sound = Ben Hales
Costume = Christine Frampton and Heather Castle-Rainsbury

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Actors

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Grace Goulding - fury, watchman, Orestes, Cassandra
Nuala Maguire - Fury, Clytemnestra
Tanya Muchanyuka - Fury, Electra, Nurse, Iphigenia

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What is catharsis

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Classic Greek theory that tragedy relieves bad emotions

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What is the tickle and stop method?

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funny then serious

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what did the police reports represent

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Greek Messenger

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What are the repeated gestus e.g. death

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British sound language - pointing down with both index fingers

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Repeated phrases

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‘An eye for and eye and a life for a life’
‘Wonderful/Lovely/Fine/Nice’
‘Life runs out for everyone’
‘I killed my mother. She deserved to die’

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Repeated questions

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Does anyone deserve death?

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Chorale characters

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People of Mycenae
Children
Old men
Gossip women

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Repetition of segments

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Police reports
Parade music distracts from the injustice
Song of vengeance repeated before they confront their mother. Changes audience perception

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What did Trump call Hillary Clinton

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Nasty woman

Sharp, shrill and lecturing

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Aims

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Make theatre politically relevant
Entertain
No fourth wall - all included

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Reasons for choosing Orestia

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Furies - Chorus - uncompromising, ferocious
Aeschylus - Gaze of privileged
Family drama with more blood

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Key questions

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Can we start at the end?
Do we have to see Agamemnon?
Can we contradict perspectives of the rich
Can we give voice to the voiceless?
Can we challenge gender/role?
Can we give the audience room to think?
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Links to isis

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Cassandra = fate of chibok girls stolen in Syria and Iraq

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Questions of justice

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Does anyone deserve death?

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Why did they remove the gods?

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Gods aren’t responsible for their actions and won’t defend them

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What does Clytemnestra (queen) draw parallels with?

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Powerful women have been undermined, underestimated, silenced and erased

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How is Clytemnestras murder different?

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Agamemnon killed his daughter for the good of the country
Orestes killed his mother as a ‘just’ crime
Clytemnestra condemned for killing…. Why?

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Clytemnestra questions

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Why is Clytemnestra demonised?
Is it more shocking if a woman kills?
Why are we not shocked if a man commits murder?
Does anyone deserve death?
Modern rules vs Greek rules - anything changed?
What is justice?
What is civilised?
Why are woman silenced?
Who gets power and why?
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What characters have been removed?

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Men
Agamemnon and his cousin Aegisthus
discussed but not seen

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Why are characters removed?

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focus attentions on the women

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What’s Electra’s role?

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Her duty to announce her father’s murder and shame her brother into carrying out retribution

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Why is Orestes isolated?

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Audience empathise with him

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Orestes questions

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Why are we less surprised when men kill?
Why in war do we treat men as more disposable?
Why are men supposed to be brave?
Why are men encouraged not to cry or care?
Can we question gender roles?

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What does Orestes ask the audience?

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‘does anyone deserve death?’

‘if someone committed a crime should they be punished?

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What does Cassandra represent?

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Women who become spoils of war, kidnapped, imprisoned and raped
Women stolen by ISIS

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Significance of the nurse

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working class voice
Women throughout history who have raised the children of the more powerful
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What do the police reports represent?

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Greek messenger

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How do police reports separate emotion?

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emotive information given in a clinical dispassionate voice

Audience hear graphic details without emotion

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Point in the parades

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Distract the furies and audience

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Where did the idea for the parade come from?

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2012 Olympics

People brought together and became happy?

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What is The Love song about?

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Height of passion can switch instantly to the depths of hatred

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How is society flawed?

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Is anger needed?

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What British sign language words are used?

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Blood
death
hurt
justice
anger
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Greek mourning rituals

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tearing of cheeks with fingernails
self-laceration
beating of breasts
ripping of clothes
tearing of hair
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How are the furies dangerous and unexpected?

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occasionally one of the women bursts forward, exploding and dangerous as if to attack. The other two women restrain them and calm them

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Describe the Eumenides (furies)

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pretending to be stereotypical heiress and glide gracefully about the room holding pose after pose

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How do the Eumenides and furies relate?

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Juxtapose each other

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Describe the scousers physicality

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still-planted: will bend but not move
vocally slow and tonally narrow
scarf wrapped around neck with long drape of cloth front and back

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describe the children’s physicality

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wide-eyed
fidgety feet
light/sustained
long, heavy arms
scarf held in hands
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describe the old men

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planted feet
small, circular movements
heavy and sustained
scarf over right shoulder

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describe the muscle men

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angular body
clenched fists
hunched shoulders
strong and direct
scarf draped over shoulders like a towel
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describe the grandmothers

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palms out
elbows in
light and direct
scarf over head

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gossip women

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lead from chest
arms held like carrying 2 handbags
direct and light
hip popped
scarf over arms
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Role of the audience

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Greek citizens

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Is there improv with the audience?

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yes

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What’ significant about the velvet cloth during Clytemnestras murder?

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Up until now she’s decided how to use the fabric
Walked on it to deliver victory speech
adorns herself in it after killing husband
Now overwhelmed by it, unable to free herself from this symbol of power and sovereignty

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Synopsis

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Prologue - audience told the entire plot
Parade
Song of vengeance
Ten year war ends - queen speech
king returns from war
story of Cassandra
I love you to death song
King murdered
Story of Iphigenia
Parade
Story of Orestes
Story of Electra
Orestes comes home
Nurse encourages Orestes
Murder of queen
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What’s unusual about the inclusion of a prologue?

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Audience know what’s going to happen

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Example of Anti-illusion

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Lights on and no-one leaves the stage

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Examples of gestus

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Chorus poses e/g muscly men popping muscles

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Example of montage

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Prologue - frozen images of happy family into killing spree

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Example of spass

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Chinese whispers
love song
parades

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Examples of V-effect

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Breaking 4th wall
Unison
Chorus
Canon
Cross-gender
Freezing
Microphone
Multi-rolling
Narration
Puppets
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Example of direct address

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Song of Vengeance = list of questions to audience

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Example of rewinding time

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Furies rewind specific moments

‘What did he say?’

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Use of microphone

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Clytemnestra speech - finally being heard

Police report - no emotion

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Example of narration

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‘The old powerful men of Mycenae praise the return of their beloved king’

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How is Iphigenia (13 yr old dead daughter) portrayed?

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fragile, easily breakable
puppet
balloon and opaque cloth 
account of her death
audience judge if it was just
held at edge - floating
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Why are costumes black?

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colour sacrifice, bad omens, darkness and power

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Why are costumes red?

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colour of blood, royalty, money

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Eumenides skirts

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stereo-typically feminine
hoops
red
caged/suppressed

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Red scarves

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Used to change character

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Make-up

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eyes of furies = black holes

spider-like black lines from their eyes

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lighting

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no divide between actors and audience

audience lit by houselights

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prop list for audience and reason

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distraction
red flags
red gymnastic ribbons
small cymbals

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actor prop list

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red heart-shaped sunglasses
red heart-shaped umbrellas
step ladder

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heart sunglasses and umbrellas

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love song
juxtaposition to song
distraction
visual pleasure
masks the furies eyes
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step ladder symbolism

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raised statues

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set

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red curtain

red rope

78
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central plush velvet curtain

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Only used by Clytemnestra
path for her husband
drapes herself once husband killed
trapped in it before being killed
represents power - she thinks she controls it but it controls her
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what does the red curtain allow for?

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surprise entrances from the watchman, clytemnestra and the old men

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red jersey used

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furies ceremonially cloak Cassandra in it - furies tied to Cassandra and she is tied in blood
Furies trap Electra in the fabric - remove the fabric from her hands when Orestes arrives, she symbolically shares her burden

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Red rope symbolism

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restrains actors - furied can’t cross
Clytemnestra crosses the rope freely
Orestes tightrope walks it
Furies remove the rope/boundary at close

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Women’s role in society quote

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‘Is equality working out?’

‘This is what you get when you educate a woman’

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Justice quote

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‘does it change your opinion of Agamemnon if you know she was willing to die?’

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gossip quote

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‘your memory is an unreliable version of the truth’

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power quote

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‘women have no power here’
‘your father was not here’
‘i led those people, me, not him’

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examples of spoken stage directions

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‘the prologue’

‘death’

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repeated phrase

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‘what could possibly go wrong?’

‘shame’ (sarcasm)

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example of audience losing sight of reality

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tempo increase and louder dynamics on ‘scandal is so incredibly distracting’

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example of unison to emphasise points

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‘this is a Greek tragedy so there’s no happily ever after’

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men of importance looking down on the queen

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‘queen steps down from podium’

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direct address example

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‘The actor playing Queen Clytemnestra has finished her rant’

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