Monday
Mondays lesson is only an hour and so we use this lesson to go over the start sequence that we had previously created and make sure that we had remembered the directions that we were given when we had performed it the first time. We also tried to shorten the amount of time that it took us to complete the whole sequence from start to finish because the first section took us 5 minutes but we didn't want to use 5 minutes just to introduce the characters to the audience so we wanted to compress the opening sequence to under 3 minutes.
We did this by closing down the gap between each pair or group of people who walked in to the room and also the queue for the prologue to start talking was for the one who was playing Antigone to sit down so we tried to make that quicker so that the play would flow better and we could keep the audience intrigued.
Wednesday
Because Wednesdays lesson is two hours, we use this is add new content to Antigone. We started to go through the prologue's speech and pick out the lines that we thought would be key lines for adding elements to the play and we also tried to make the staging as interesting as possible.
When the prologue's speech begins Antigone is sat cross-legged at the front right-hand side of the stage as she has separated herself from the rest of the group. We were asked to think of a sentence that our actor character would react to the news of whoever was sat at the front becoming Antigone. We had to imagine that this play and the actions involved were real, so we hide to truly believe that whoever was given the position of Antigone was going to die and the other characters involved were going to bury her alive, which would lead to her dying by her own hand.
The first time that we did this I was sat as Antigone and I had to think of a sentence that I would say once I was given the role of Anitgone. My sentence was "I wanted this, and I've got it."
In my head, I was hoping that it was me and so when it was given to me I decided that I would step up to the plate and completly immerse myself in the character in Antigone as whilst there were things going on in the background and so I sat staring forwards accepting the role I had been given and deciding how that should be played and projected to the audience.
In the video that is linked, I wasn't the one who was playing Antigone so I changed my sentence to fit my actor character at this point. My sentence became "It should have been me, she doesn't deserve to die."
The first time that we did this I was sat as Antigone and I had to think of a sentence that I would say once I was given the role of Anitgone. My sentence was "I wanted this, and I've got it."
In my head, I was hoping that it was me and so when it was given to me I decided that I would step up to the plate and completly immerse myself in the character in Antigone as whilst there were things going on in the background and so I sat staring forwards accepting the role I had been given and deciding how that should be played and projected to the audience.
In the video that is linked, I wasn't the one who was playing Antigone so I changed my sentence to fit my actor character at this point. My sentence became "It should have been me, she doesn't deserve to die."
I am another actor who plays Antigone so I wanted to put myself in place of her because I didn't want to put anybody else through that pain and suffering that Antigone goes through and I understand what it's like because I have studied the character of Antigone at the same time as her. I feel the need to put myself before the others and so when she is picked I feel that I should object but you can't go against who was pciked so I try and show the pain that I feel through my facial expressions.
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