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:A 3 page essay that discusses how to stage Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis with just three actors. The writer addresses the problems inherent in this staging problem, which are numerous, because while there are only eight speaking parts, there are four characters on stage in some scenes. Suggestions are made for approaching this problem, as the writer details the entrances and exits in the play. No additional sources cited.
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speaking roles. However, the students request that staging directions should only include three actors total is problematic since there are numerous instances where there are four speaking characters on stage.
There are basically two ways to address this problem. The production can include more exits and entrances than is indicated in the play, that is, the actor playing the
messenger, in some instances, can exit so that this person can reenter to recite the part of the Chorus. Another method would be to delete some of the dialogue spoken
by the Chorus. However, from any perspective, while four actors could handle the entirety of the play, using just three is problematic. However, lets say that we have actors
A, B and C. In the first scene, actor A plays Agamemnon, and Actor B plays the aging Attendant. Agamemnon and the Attendant talk, providing necessary exposition. They exit and
the Chorus enters, played by Actor C. In the next scene, the play indicates that, in total, Menelaus, an Attendant, Agamemnon and the Chorus will all be on stage. However,
after a long expository speech by the Chorus, this actor does not have any lines for awhile. Therefore, actor C could exit in order to enter again as the Attendant.
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "Master, he is wronging me: he snatched thy letter violently
from my grasp, Agamemnon, and will not heed the claims of right" (Euripides, 2004). Agamemnon enters and the Attendant exits. Then Actor C could come back onstage as the Chorus
who has further lines. However, before anyone else exits a Messenger enters and the Chorus is still suppose to be on stage. The solution may be to have Actor
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