My character interpretation in comparison to classical theatre

My performance as an actor and the production as a whole had some similarities and differences when it came to the original performance of the classical plays. One similarity I would say would be the style of language that we used, we stuck to the original script, only changing a word if it was needed to keep with our concept, but I would still speak in verse and prose were I found it necessary. 

However a difference would be the melodramatic style of acting that was applied to some scenes, in particular the scenes that were more serious in themes, for example in the transitioning scenes, in traditional Elizabethan theatre actors would just come onto stage and speak their lines to keep the narrative flowing, however in our production we made use of all of the scenes and moments to keep the scene flowing, one part in our play would be the conjuring up the devil and signing the deed. All of the ensemble members came onto the stage and performed a dance around faustus, this gave extra meaning and helped the audeince along with the narrative.

Another part in the play that we have adapted would be by removing all use of Latin speech in the show and any mention of religion. Our director saw this as a good idea, as it just played no help to carrying our narrative through. However in the original production everything would have been performed as to how the playwright wrote it, following all lines and stage direction if given.

When it came to interpreting scene, a lot of it was left down to us as actors, as the script that we were working from didn't have much stage direction in it. This then left us to add more moment of movement or physical theatre in. As few that stick out to me would be the scene entrances, with most of the members of royality and higher status than faustus we would all walk down the performance space parallel to each other, than meet at the front. This was our own interpretation and was not said I the script, but was something that we added to either add more meaning to a scene or add some diversity to the scenes.