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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