Monday
During Mondays lesson we explored the scene between Antigone and Ismene who are the sisters in the play. We explored the scene and talked in a pair about how we thought the relationship was like between the two. In my pair we said that at the start of the conversation we thought that the two of them were very close and then as the scene progresses we see that the two of them have opposite ambitions for their lives.
We tried to show this contrast between the start and end through the proxemics of the piece as at the start they were both on the same level and were sat very close each other almost leaning on each other for support but by the end they were both stood up and at opposite sides of the stage to show that the conversation had separated them.
Wednesday
We used Wednesday's lesson to create a piece of movement that was linked to Antigone that told the whole story but only included 10 lines from specific scenes. In my group, we wanted to make the first and last scene the same but change the character that was in the middle. For example in the first image we wanted to put Antigone in the middle because she was the main character and also when you first read Antigone you think that she is the tragic hero but when you read the play in depth you realize that actually Creon is the tragic hero and that is why our last scene was the same but it had Creon on the chair instead of Antigone.
We wanted to use the chair as a symbol of a barrier between all of the characters as there was always something that held Antigone back from other characters. We tried to make sure that in the majority of the scenes between two main characters the chair was in between them as both a physical and mental barrier.
The lines that we used were to symbolize the relationships between characters and we specifically wanted Antigone not to say a line till the very end to show that it was her fault that all of this happened. The line that we made her say reflected this because she said "You are alone now, Creon" which shows that he is alone at the end and everyone around him has left him because of the stubborn decisions that Antigone makes.
If we were to do the sequence again, I think that we should have slowed the movement down so that the audience would have a better understanding of what was going on and also if we included sticks/poles to visually show the restrain of Antigone and many the restrain that Creon has to put on himself to try and show Antigone that he has enough power to go against his own laws.
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