Electra Blocking Part 1

The chorus will start the show by roaming through the audience, singing 'Lamb's Glory Box' directly to faces of the audience. We discussed this is lesson and we had further thoughts by maybe not singing it as it might sound odd against the sound track so we have decided that it may be whispered.

'Just...Give me a reason to love youGive me a reason to be a womanI just wanna be a woman'The lyrics of the song show Electra's desire to be a woman, which is significant because nor her or her sister can have children, due to their stepfather. This song basically tells the audience there is a female character who desperately wants freedom from the life she is living.
At the end of song, Electra approaches the chorus who are centre downstage. The chorus bring Electra down to the floor with them, this suggests the chorus being close with her and give her sympathy. Together, they sit in a semi-circle.The action is performed as if it's in slow motion; we whisper and joke.

In the opening dialogue between Old Man and Orestes, the chorus acts as protectors for Electra - distracting her from what is going on behind her. Electra shouts 'Woe for my hapless lot!' - this leads the chorus to taming her, such as placing a comforting hand on the shoulder and instructing her to quiet down. This comes across as effective to the audience as they show their affection. In Electra's first speech, starting 'O purest light', the chorus will be doing a shoal of fish, which we all previously had engaged in the Electra workshop, this means that the chorus had a small understanding on how to be a chorus. The shoal of fish needs to be in rhythm with the dialogue, which Electra will join and re-join throughout. After this speech comes to an end, we flood around Electra. They comfort Electra further, performing it again in a shoal of fish, which ends on the line 'To this land with happy omen brought?'
The reason i look so much at the chorus is because in rehearsals i wasn't acting as the chorus but that will be my role when i'm not playing Electra's mother this meant i didn't have much rehearsal time of the chorus so i was determined to take notes so i would thoroughly know what to do.


After that, the 'Friends' circle Electra, the chorus deliver their lines individually whilst doing so. This breaks up them saying the lines as a chorus and shows diversity to the audience to keep them on edge.

Electra and the Friends remain sat down together for a while, until Electra becomes angry, and aims certain lines at each one of the chorus This leads her to standing above the chorus and watch her intensely.
Chrysothemis enters, and the four Friends hide away in separate corners of the stage. The next time the chorus talk is in a loud whisper in unison, kneeling up to Electra and hiding again afterwards, this highlights the fact that the chorus aren't real people and only a spirit. We come out of our corners, running up and between Electra and the Sisters, acting as a metaphorical wall. The chorus spy on me Clytemnestra, and get the attention of the other friends by clapping and miming. During Electra's and my conversation of being the mother. I have to grow in anger but attempt to dismiss my anger from the audience in a way as i want them to be on my side Electra verbally abuses her Mother, which shows the audience what sort of person Electra can actually be.