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This 4 page paper discusses how to stage one scene in Oedipus Rex, and what that tells us about why we still use the format for theatrical presentations that the Greeks laid out 2,000 years ago. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Greek template of theatrical performance has lasted and is used today. Discussion The word "template" means pattern, and here means that we are still staging plays in much the same
way the early Greeks did. We adapted their theater physically-a raised platform on which actors perform for an audience seated where they can see the action. We also adopted the
idea of the proscenium arch, the "framework" around the stage through which we watch the action. The proscenium creates the all-important and imaginary "fourth wall" that both actors and audience
tacitly agree not to break. That is, when we watch a play we understand the conceit that we are looking at peoples private lives through a fourth wall that is
there, invisible. This allows them the freedom to behave as if no one were watching. This type of theater has been in use for centuries; it is only fairly
recently that thrust stages, arena stages and theater in the round facilities have become popular. They are usually much smaller and more intimate. Also, when the audience is seated on
all sides of the playing area, everyone has a good view of the action, even if it does mean that the actors have to work to include everyone. Now
lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about why we are still using this pattern. The scene runs from
line 300 to line 460; its between Oedipus and the blind seer Teiresias. The plot unfolding here is now classic: it was foretold that Oedipus would kill his father and
marry his mother, and to prevent this catastrophe, his parents had him "exposed" when he was an infant-that is, he was left to die. But he was saved by a
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