These students are in our Styles for the Actor course! As part of their Greek Chorus section they had to perform sections of the messenger speech from Oedipus.
I don't have the script anymore, but as one of the former students in the video, this is my best recollection of the script for those asking. This was so long ago... sorry for any errors! CHORUS: He burst upon us shouting, and we looked to him as he paced frantically around, begging us always... OEDIPUS: Give us a sword I say! CHORUS: To find this wife, no wife, this mother's womb. This (unsure the next line). OEDIPUS: Once I sprang and where I sowed my children CHORUS: As he (rang?) some god showed him the way. (None was there ?) Bellowing terribly and led by some invisible lie, he rushed on the two doors (wrenching the old bolts?) out of their sockets he charged inside. --- OEDIPUS: There! CHORUS: There! We saw his wife, hanging, the twisted rope around her neck. When he saw her he cried out tearfully and cut the dangling noose. Then, as she lay, poor woman, on the ground, what happened after was terrible to see. He tore the brooches. The gold chase brooches, fastening her robe away from her and lifting them up high, smashed, smashed, smashed them on his own eyelids, shrieking out such things as... OEDIPUS: They will never see the crime I have committed or had done upon me. --- CHORUS: Dark eyes, now (the gates to come?) OEDIPUS: Look on forbidden faces. (Chorus says "hanging"?) Do not recognize those whom you long for. CHORUS: With such (impatience?) he struck his eye again and a again with the brooches. And the bleeding eyeballs gush and stained his beard. (Not sure the first few words) oozing drops. (Not sure the first part) poured down. So it is broken and not on one head but troubles mixed for husband and for wife. The fortunes of the days gone by was true good fortune. But today (grows?) destruction and death. And shame of all ills can be named. OEDIPUS: Not one is missing
Hey! This video is such a great example of the Greek chorus! I would love to show this to my students, but they are all non-native speakers and I think it will be to hard to understand what they are saying (even I am having a hard time). Would it be possible to create subtitles for it? I think it would help ESL drama students around the world a lot!
This is super that they have this chance. One wishes there was less reverb in the room so their elocution may have been better presented. Good luck future thespians!
In the Cone of Silence... Chief: "There's an echo in here." Max: "What?" Chief: "An Echo" MaxL "What?" "Chief: Echo, ECHO!" Max:"Chief, there's an echo in here!". ( GET SMART. Never mind. You weren't born yet.k )
Why is this my homework ;( I dont understand a thing they saying
It’s my homework too... :(
I also have
I dont understand whats happening but I uhhhh think its cool
Me too lol
sendddddd the answersss
I don't have the script anymore, but as one of the former students in the video, this is my best recollection of the script for those asking. This was so long ago... sorry for any errors!
CHORUS: He burst upon us shouting, and we looked to him as he paced frantically around, begging us always...
OEDIPUS: Give us a sword I say!
CHORUS: To find this wife, no wife, this mother's womb. This (unsure the next line).
OEDIPUS: Once I sprang and where I sowed my children
CHORUS: As he (rang?) some god showed him the way. (None was there ?) Bellowing terribly and led by some invisible lie, he rushed on the two doors (wrenching the old bolts?) out of their sockets he charged inside.
---
OEDIPUS: There!
CHORUS: There! We saw his wife, hanging, the twisted rope around her neck. When he saw her he cried out tearfully and cut the dangling noose. Then, as she lay, poor woman, on the ground, what happened after was terrible to see. He tore the brooches. The gold chase brooches, fastening her robe away from her and lifting them up high, smashed, smashed, smashed them on his own eyelids, shrieking out such things as...
OEDIPUS: They will never see the crime I have committed or had done upon me.
---
CHORUS: Dark eyes, now (the gates to come?)
OEDIPUS: Look on forbidden faces. (Chorus says "hanging"?) Do not recognize those whom you long for.
CHORUS: With such (impatience?) he struck his eye again and a again with the brooches. And the bleeding eyeballs gush and stained his beard. (Not sure the first few words) oozing drops. (Not sure the first part) poured down. So it is broken and not on one head but troubles mixed for husband and for wife. The fortunes of the days gone by was true good fortune. But today (grows?) destruction and death. And shame of all ills can be named.
OEDIPUS: Not one is missing
Hey! This video is such a great example of the Greek chorus! I would love to show this to my students, but they are all non-native speakers and I think it will be to hard to understand what they are saying (even I am having a hard time). Would it be possible to create subtitles for it? I think it would help ESL drama students around the world a lot!
Watched this during drama class :/
Same bro
Im in it right now
same
is it just me or does everyone listen to this for drama work
Yes
Same here
That dab tho
theatre kids when one gets made fun of
i have to watch this during drama class ;T
That dab at 1:40 thoo
🤣im dying
This is pretty dang cool
This is super that they have this chance. One wishes there was less reverb in the room so their elocution may have been better presented. Good luck future thespians!
👍
So we all here doing the same work then?
Was it their choice not to wear masks? Or did some choruses not wear them?
I have this for my drama homework????
Same
Hi, Can anyone send me the script of this play?
... of "Οἰδίπους Τύραννος? The text of that and the other extant Greek Tragedies are available on the internet.
In the Cone of Silence... Chief: "There's an echo in here." Max: "What?" Chief: "An Echo" MaxL "What?" "Chief: Echo, ECHO!" Max:"Chief, there's an echo in here!". ( GET SMART. Never mind. You weren't born yet.k )
XD
What is the piece of text you are using here? I can’t recall it from anywhere
We aren't sure! This video is from years ago. Sorry about that!
@@EMichiganTheatre lmao
It's from Oedipus Rex, aka Oedipus the King. His wife/mother hangs herself and then he pierces out his eyes
Powerful okay
what school is this?????
We're a department at Eastern Michigan University! This video is from years ago.
Is that girl from Anne with an e or am I trippin
We have to do greek choruses for drama, i don't get this at all, physical acting is so much simpler
We're all here cuz our cher told us to
Anyone comment
help were all here from homework
scary:/
you lost me at 🔈🔉🔊 AUDYSODBA 🔈🔉🔊
PLS
PLSSSS
Yeahhh yoooo
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I study English literature 😢
for drama :(
Who else watch this video because your teacher tell you to
Whassup
wth is this
Interpretations of certain Chorus sections of Sophocles' "Oedipus The King". Were you raised in a barn?
SNL: copy
SNL: paste
😆 Heh. Yes. It's the inevitable effect of youngsters doing the heightened DRAMA of Greek tragedy.