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Greek Myth Programs

Youth Conservatory performing Greek Myths, spring 2008

Greek Myth Assembly Program

Let’s travel to the land of Ancient Greece. This program peaks students’ curiosity about the origins of language and theatrical practices with its distinctive interactive style. Students are on their feet
creating the structures of ancient coliseums with their bodies. Greek Masks are introduced into the stage picture and students learn that masks became necessary for performers to be seen by their audience. To round out the assembly, kids act out favorite myths in an exploration of Greek Storytelling as actor/teaching artists narrate. We take students inside the world of an ancient land that has contributed so much to our present civilization.

Greek Myth Mask Workshop

This mask workshop allows students to explore in depth what they have been introduced to in the assembly: the use of Masks in theatrical storytelling. Both neutral and character masks are demonstrated.
Attitude, intelligence and creature aspects of each mask are revealed as the group improvises. With neutral masks, both the face and voice are purposefully absent. Character masks represent stock personalities of the Maid, the Miser and the Braggart, etc., and students lose themselves in the world the mask creates for them. Self-consciousness is left behind as masked students’ bodies and voices reflect the mask they wear. Teamwork, focus and listening skills empower even the most reticent of students.

Assembly and Mask programs can accompany one another or be booked separately.

Options for Assembly Performance Spaces:

You come to us! Stone Soup can accommodate up to 65 students plus staff in our DownStage theatre space.

We’ll Come to you! Assemblies require an open playing area, stage, or gymnasium! Nothing more.

Program Rates

Greek Myth Assembly

    $600 per Assembly
     $250 per additional Assembly
    $10 per student at Stone Soup DownStage Theatre

Greek Myth Mask Workshop

    $300 per 90-minute workshop

Greek Myth Assembly AND Mask Workshop

    * $750 ($100 savings)