lesson review - 7.4.15

At the begging of the rehearsal, we were in our groups a discussed our long term and short term goal for this topic. We had to then sketch some diagrams of what we wanted the stage to look like, create a modern version of our scene and begin to stage the piece. My group are set outside by a circle of wooden stumps, we had to decide where we wanted to be and also where we wanted the audience to be stood. Because we are outside, and it's hard to use multimedia such as film because there is nowhere for it to be projected, we decided to set the scene using props. We would have police tape wrapped around the wooded stumps, with Ellis as the dead body in the middle. Tim and Antonia would move around the area as guards, and also move the audience into position as if they're too close to the body, this will make it easier for them to know where to go when moving from the previous scene. I think we struggled to rehearse this scene because although it is significant in the play, it is a very small section and our aim was to elongate it and make sure everyone was involved. This lead us to creating new characters, the guards, and developing their characters so it fitted in with Antigone. I also think because we didn't have the props we planned to use, it was hard to imagine them. For example, when I'm about to bury Polynicies, an alarm is meant to go off, but we didn't have that which lead to me having to kind of trail off when speaking because their was nothing to interrupt me, which effected my development of Antigone.