Our project is to reconstruct a production of
the play as it might have been seen either in its own time
or in a period represented in the image collection. To help you bridge
the gap between your experience of this text and the experience of an
ancient Greek audience, imagine that you have uncovered a wealth of evidence
(the image collection) from some period of time closer than your own to
the initial performance of the play. Your first task is to choose among
this evidence those pieces which you think accurately describe the look
of your production. Your second task is to justify your conclusions.
The directions to this project are
intentionally vague so that you will utilize your imagination and your
skill at using various historical concepts to help you to visualize an event
from the past.
This is a group project, so get together and
share your conclusion. Ideally your group will offer a unififed opinion
at the class presentation of your work - but there again, you may never
agree on a "correct" answer, or even on what criterion (groupings for
example) should be used for an answer.
Please do not consult art history books or BU
art historians. Our pedagogical intention is to develop inductively working
categories in our study of Greek theatre history.
From the images page, group together in your mind
those pieces of evidence that might have a common function or material.
Separate those categories into smaller groupings with similar "artistic"
or "chronological" features.
To assemble your project - click on any image.
The full-sized image will appear on your screen. To copy it, click on it
and hold down the mouse button. A pop-up menu will appear.
Select "Copy this Image". Now click on the Apple icon and from the
menu select the Scrapbook.
With the Scrapbook open paste the
image into the Scrapbook. Continue do this until you have
all the images you wish to use in your presentation. Don't worry about
the order as you can do that in the ASTOUND
presentation.
NOTE:If you have any
problems putting the images in the SCRAPBOOK - "don't worry" just do the
following.
Open Astound & Netscape and copy the images straight to Astound. You
can jump back and forth between Astound and Netscape with both open and
copy in Netscape and Paste in Astound - if
that doesn't work then use the SAVE IMAGE AS.. in Netscape and save the
image to the MAC
desktop. You can then use IMPORT in Astound (under the file menu) and
choose picture and it will read the file into your presentation.
Close Netscape, and open the ASTOUND application.
Use the Scrapbook to paste the images into your presentation in the order
you desire. Your ASTOUND Specialist will help you assemble the images
into a presentation
When you are finished you may store your
presentation on the coral file server. From the "Chooser" select ACAD and
then choose Theatre&Dance. Then open Theatre & Dance and open Open-Access
Folder. You may put your program in there to store.