Top Acts Solo Performances

1. Top Acts Solo Performances 2001 Solo Character: Medea Recorded at Hamer Hall 2002

2. Prescribed Structure • Character: Medea • Stimulus: The play Medea by Euripides • Performance Focus: After the death of her children, Medea has a meeting with Zeus where she demands god-like status. To do this, Medea • Demonstrates her earliest attempts at using her magical powers • Recreates events from her fateful life • Revisits some of the necessary deaths she has caused to show her ambition • Zeus delivers his judgement.

3. Prescribed Structure • Performance Style: Non-Naturalism, with aspects of Ancient Greek Theatre. • Theatrical conventions: heightened use of language, transformation of character • Dramatic Elements: climax and symbol

4. Medea Look for: Superb use of costume for establishment and transformation of character. The script, language and character portrayals are entirely appropriate for the story of Medea, a classic Greek tragedy. Comic moments and characterisations add colour to the piece and lighten what might otherwise be an entirely dark tale. Excellent manipulation of rhythm and contrast between characters and scenes, also in delivery of language and use of space to create both comic and dramatic tension and climax. There is a strong sense of truth and integrity in the main characterisations.