Evaluation

I am really pleased with how the performance of Antigone went, I felt like that the use of promenade theatre helped to make the play more modern and kept the audiences attention because they never knew where they were going to go next or what was going to happen. There was a wide range of multimedia used throughout the performance: videos, lights, pre recorded sounds, alarms and microphones. This also helped greatly in bringing Antigone to a modern era and it also engaged the audience because they always had more than one thing to look at. Overall, it gave the play a mysterious atmosphere because sometimes only iPhone lights were used or sounds were being projected but the audience didn't know here from. It defiantly had an impact on the audience.

The multimedia impacted the audience because they had no idea what was coming next. The scenes varied so much because we did them in groups and everyone interpreted the play differently and used multimedia in a slightly different way. The multimedia had a positive impact on the audience because it made the piece easier to understand as the story was being explained through multimedia aswell as the dialog of the play. It also made the play more unique and creative because there were so many different elements.

I don't think the performance would have been as effective without multimedia because there would have been no contrast or difference between each scene. I think because we were split into groups and were allowed to chose what multimedia we used, it allowed every scene to have it's own style and it's own way of presenting this story with the use of multimedia. It enhanced the performance because people could be more creative in the way they presented the story which then intrigued the audience because it was something they maybe hadn't seen before and none of the scenes were repetitive, everyone had used multimedia in a slightly different way. I also think multimedia helped the audience understand what was going on. Because the language used at that time is very different to how we speak now, it can be hard to understand, so the use of video and sound helped audience members who were struggling because they could watch the events happening and with the sound, it helped create an atmosphere so the audience could sense what emotions the actors were feeling.

I think the the scene where Haemon's mum finds out about his suicide, a video of him killing himself is played repeatedly in the background, was the most effective. When the mum walks in asking what has happened the audience can sympathise with her because they already know as they have seen the video but are waiting for her to find out. When Haemon's suicide is being describe and what lead to him stabbing himself are projected, the video enphaisis the pain he felt and really engages the audience. I think the multimedia, in all of the scenes, helped back up what the actors were trying to present.