Monday
We decided to use Monday's lesson as an opportunity to recap and go over the fight sequence that we use at the start of the play as a warm-up in our actor characters. We wanted to make the pace quite quick so that it looked as though each person wanted to severely injure the other person. Even though we were attacking each other with sticks, we looked at the end of the other person's stick so that the audience would believe that it was dangerous and could in fact harm us.We decided to add in harsh breath sounds and grunts so that we could emphasis the affect of the fighting and it would also created a bigger juxtaposition between the fighting scenes and the silent more intimate scenes that don't have every chorus member on stage.
Wednesday
After working on making the fight scene more intense on Monday, we decided to use this to symbolize the two brothers fighting. One person from each pair was to stand on either side of the room and we were going to stare at each other with hatred because we were fighting for Polynices and they were fighting for Eteocles.
After crossing over, we had to find a way so that one person out of each pair to be taken to the ground when we met in the middle. Me and my partner decided that I should look as though I was going to stab her in the thigh as it was the easiest transition for her to get across my shoulder. The reason why she needed to get on my shoulder was so that we added height to our movement because when Hannah was thrown on the floor it would have bigger impact on the audience and it would also show the extremes that the fight went to.
The prologue's speech moves on to speak of the deceased bodies that are left in the soil and are so disassembled that you can't tell the different between dirt and a body part. We wanted to go from the loud frantic movement so that there are many places for the audience to look and their eyes won't be able to focus on one specific thing, to a still juxtaposing image of deceased bodies all intertwined.
In the still image, we wanted to add height so that we could represent the hills of mud and body parts that there was after the fight between Eteocles and Polynices. We had one person in a shoulder sit, a pin lift and knee stand. This allowed us to have many different levels which was visually interesting for the audience to look at because the two opposing sides that were fighting against each other just moments ago are now just a mound of bodies, and the is the only point when the sides don't matter as they have all become connect by disagreeing with each other.
The speech then proceeds to talk about Creon declaring who was the rightful brother and which brother deserves to have a funeral and have the passage to the afterlife. We wanted Eteocles, the rightful brother, to have a grand gesture the would should he was the "winner" of the fight. We added in a lift so we physically showed that Eteocles was above Polynices, who was left to rot in the mud. We wanted two juxtaposing images, so we had Eteocles being lifted and described almost like a god, and Polynices melts into the floor and slithers offstage. Polynices becomes almost like water because his life is just another one among many others and he gets lost in the system as all the attention is focused on Eteocles.
After crossing over, we had to find a way so that one person out of each pair to be taken to the ground when we met in the middle. Me and my partner decided that I should look as though I was going to stab her in the thigh as it was the easiest transition for her to get across my shoulder. The reason why she needed to get on my shoulder was so that we added height to our movement because when Hannah was thrown on the floor it would have bigger impact on the audience and it would also show the extremes that the fight went to.
The prologue's speech moves on to speak of the deceased bodies that are left in the soil and are so disassembled that you can't tell the different between dirt and a body part. We wanted to go from the loud frantic movement so that there are many places for the audience to look and their eyes won't be able to focus on one specific thing, to a still juxtaposing image of deceased bodies all intertwined.
In the still image, we wanted to add height so that we could represent the hills of mud and body parts that there was after the fight between Eteocles and Polynices. We had one person in a shoulder sit, a pin lift and knee stand. This allowed us to have many different levels which was visually interesting for the audience to look at because the two opposing sides that were fighting against each other just moments ago are now just a mound of bodies, and the is the only point when the sides don't matter as they have all become connect by disagreeing with each other.
The speech then proceeds to talk about Creon declaring who was the rightful brother and which brother deserves to have a funeral and have the passage to the afterlife. We wanted Eteocles, the rightful brother, to have a grand gesture the would should he was the "winner" of the fight. We added in a lift so we physically showed that Eteocles was above Polynices, who was left to rot in the mud. We wanted two juxtaposing images, so we had Eteocles being lifted and described almost like a god, and Polynices melts into the floor and slithers offstage. Polynices becomes almost like water because his life is just another one among many others and he gets lost in the system as all the attention is focused on Eteocles.
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