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Procession of the Magna Mater IWU Megalenses 20131
Satyr and Musicians lead procession to Megalensia banquet
Curtis provides several sketches for approval
Students in Curtis Trouts scene painting class work on the drop for Pseudolus
Attention to Detail
Final 10 x 16 ft Backdrop for Pseudolus Designed by Curtis Trout, IWU
Pseudolus with his Prostitutes (on right is statue of Cybele, watching the performance
Shrine of DIonysusMembers of procession*Statue of Magna Mater on ferculum #Altar & CandelabraFresco from shop in Pompeii depicts procession in honor of Magna Mater. 1.65 m wide
* figures in white may be priests? Females are in colored robes. All carry musical instrument (cymbals, tibiae) or cult object. Central figure carries large container (for most sacred objects?)
#the ferculum is surrounded by 4 porters (Galli?). At her feet are lion statues (associated with this goddess since earliest NE version) Man cross-dress as woman at Kerala temple, Kottamkulangara Temple (Vilakkeduppu) to honor Bhagvathy (Mother Goddess).
Galli Cross-Dressed Worshippers
Statue of a priest of Magna Mater (Gallus) from Rome. Rome, Capitoline Museums (late second century AD)
Original Music Composed by StudentsPseudolus scores
Banquet (Lectisternium)http://youtu.be/Ak5I4FgoGOY
Procession of the Magna Mater IWU Megalenses 201313Plautus, Pseudolus
Illinois Wesleyan
2013
Video:
http://youtu.be/kwJClb7MUWg
Many Scene Studies! Rehearsals!Students revised the Pseudolus Script
Inside the Dressing Room
Student Galli in make up and during the festivalAdministration & OrganizationIdentify funding source, budget, schedule of events, book spaces
Identify faculty collaborators
Send out Production Team Survey to students before class begins Create production teams based on student form; each team elects a khoregos
Designate a Stage Manager (student)
Establish reliable form of communication (texting, emails...)
Have contingency plan for bad weather
Arrange for catering and any rentals (pipe & drape, portable stage, etc.)
Encourage active research work from a variety of sources to address authenticity problem
Develop method(s) of Assessment
SCENE STUDY & PRODUCTION TEAMS(report daily)WHOLE CLASS:Dramaturgy = History of Period, Megalenses ritual, PlautusPseudolus script adaptation (based on Christensons Focus Trans.)Participation in Megalenses Festival (morning), Pseudolus (afternoon)
TEAM ONE:Speaking Actors (4) + extras: 4 male slaves, 4 female slaves
TEAM TWO:Costumes, Make up, Masks
TEAM THREE:Props (make a Magna Mater statue)
TEAM FOUR:Music, Movement
DIRECTOR, (Sultan) TECHNICAL DIRECTOR (Trout), COSTUME ADVISOR (McDonald)
16 Students (Sultan) + 8 Helpers (Coles) + 3 Musicians
Sample Budget Page
Keep good records!IWU Megalenses Schedule, May 30, 20139 amGather at Dressing Room for Costumes/Make-Up
11 amPOMPA begin in front of Buck Memorial LibraryGroup 1: Phrygian WorshippersGroup 2: Roman OfficialsSatyr (sikinnis)MagistratePriest/PriestessPriest/Priestess2 Armed SoldiersSpear Carriers4 Galli carry image of Magna Mater MatronsWorshippersEquitesDancerMusiciansMusicians
11:20Process Around Quad to Temple of Magna Mater (Chapel)Place Goddess on Temple StepsGalli collect almsAmy Coles reads Pseudo-Augustus speech describing sacrifice of heifer (iuvenca)Recitation of prayersReading of Catullus 63 (Attis Myth) in Latin and English (2 students)Nancy Sultan explains symbols of Magna MaterProcess with Goddess to Banquet (Lectisternium)Place Goddess on pulvinar and feed moretum/ recite prayers
NoonCatered Cena
2:00 Process Goddess to stage area Everyone change costumes & prepare for Pseudolus performance
3:30Assign audience their roles for role-playing exercise4:00 Magistrate Reads Welcome; Nancy Sultan introduces play, followed by Performance of Pseudolus
Inspiration for Cybele Statue & ProcessionBhagvathy (Hindu Mother Goddess)
National Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima carried in processionLudi Megalenses Matri Deum Magnae Idaea, Cosimo Alberti (Feb. 19, 2011) http://youtu.be/LO8MVLF-vrs
Sikinnis (?)
Milano Civico Museo Archeologico - Cybele and Attis in a lion-drawn chariot 1b (silver plate) [1st to 3rd cent CE] - Parabiago
Tomb Portrait of Gallus, 2nd c. CE Rome(in Beard, North, & Price Religionsof Rome Vol II 8.7c)PROPS
Cymbals, tympanum, Phrygiantibia
Headdress shows Attis & Jupiter
Long fillets bound into hair
Sprinkler
Medallion with Attis
Whip of knuckle bones
Box for cult objects
Bowl of fruit (with almonds, representing Attis self-castration)
Female dresshttp://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/Stefan Hagel, Ancient Greek Music:A New Technical History. Cambridge2009EXPLORING THE MUSIC
Phrygian tibia & tympanum, reconstructedhttp://ancestral.co.uk/romanreeds.htm
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~timmoore/Recordings%20of%20Plautus/Pseudolus1246ff/Pseudolus1246ffsound.mp3
MASKS
Some research on location, temporary stages & stage architecture, graffiti
Speech about Sacrifice of Heifer
Prayer modeled on ILS 5050/CIL VI.32323 lines 90ff., Augustuss Saecular Games, 17 BCEBrackets indicate where a general description of a Roman sacrifice has been inserted. Taken from Beard, North, and Price (1998) Vol. II, pp.148-150.
Earlier today, on the steps of the Evelyn Chapel on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University, our praetor, Marcus Junius Brutus, sacrificed with his head uncovered by his toga, according to the Greek rite, a young heifer to the divine Magna Mater as a partially burnt sacrifice. [The victim, chosen for her perfection, ritually cleaned and adorned, was led in a procession to the altar.] There the praetor spoke the following prayer: Magna Mater, as it is prescribed for you in those Sibylline books, and for this reason may every good fortune attend the Roman people, the Quirites, let sacrifice be made to you with this fine, young heifer. I beg you and pray that you may increase the power and majesty of the Roman people, the Quirites, in war and peace; and that you may grant eternal safety, victory, and health to the Roman people, the Quirites; and that you may protect the Roman people, the Quirites, and the legions of the Roman people, the Quirites, and that you may be favorable and propitious to the Roman people, the Quirites, to the college of the quindecemviri, to myself and my fellow magistrates, and that you may accept this sacrifice of a young heifer. For these reasons, be honored with the sacrifice of this female heifer, become favorable and propitious to the Roman people, the Quirites, to the college of the quindecemviri, and to myself and my fellow magistrates.
[The praetor offered wine and incense at the altar of the goddess, that she may drink with us and breathe the scents that we breathe. Then, the young heifer assented to become the sacrifice to Magna Mater when she nodded her head, after Junius Brutus anointed her with wine and sacred meal called mola salsa. The slaves, standing by, killed the heifer with her own permission, and her blood flowed, hot and thick, from her wounds. The haruspices, those Etruscan priests and diviners, pulled the entrails, the liver, the heart, from our young heifer to verify that Magna Mater accepted her sacrifice and answered the praetors prayer that she be favorable to the Romans, the Quirites. The fat and bones of the heifer have been burned upon the altar, and a ritual feast from the willing heifer has been prepared for us all to enjoy.]Opening of Ludi Scaenici / dedication of temple to Magna Mater in 191 BCE
Adapted from Livy 36.36.4 (for 191 BCE, trans. Roberts)
Welcome, Quirites, to the dedication of the temple of Magna Idaea. During the consulship of Publius Claudius Scipio - afterwards called Africanus - and Publius Licinius, the goddess was brought from Asia in accordance with advice from the Sibylline Books; Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica conducted her from the harbour to the Palatine. The censors, Marcus Livius and Gaius Claudius, signed the contract for the building in accordance with instructions from the senate during the consulship of Marcus Cornelius and Publius Sempronius. After the lapse of thirteen years, I, Marcus Junius Brutus, am pleased to dedicated this temple and invite you all to the first Scenic Games ever given, which include the production of Pseudolus you will now enjoy.Supplicis, alma, tuae, genetrix fecunda deorum, accipe preces! Kind and fruitful Mother of the Gods, accept a suppliants prayers!"Matri Deum et Navi Salviae Salviae!"Mother of God and the Savior, Savior Ship!"(Priestess Sings in Greek): O Mother of gods and men, who shares the seat andthrone of mighty Jove! O fount of the knowable gods! Goddess, giver oflife, Mother, Providence, and Maker of our souls!
(All Chant in English): You are the beginning of all Good unto the Knowable gods,and who fills the world with all the objects of Sense, and grants allgood things, in all places, unto mankind! Grant unto all menhappiness, of which the sum and substance is the knowledge of thegods; and to the Roman people universally, and grant them propitiousFortune, that will assist them in governing the empire for manythousands of years to come! To myself grant for the fruit of mydevotion to You----Truth in belief concerning the gods, the attainmentof perfection in religious rites, and in all the undertakings which weattempt as regards warlike or military measures, valor coupled withgood luck, and the termination of my life to be without pain, andhappy in the good hope of a departure for your abodes! (Julian 179d-180c)SOME PRAYERS (in Latin and Greek)Song 4Tim MooreLatin2010209958.8eng - iTunPGAP0eng - iTunNORM 00000443 00000000 000030EB 00000000 0000C800 00000000 000080D7 00000000 0000C800 00000000eng - iTunSMPB 00000000 00000210 00000A70 00000000008D3A00 00000000 0026676E 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000