During this lesson we started off with a warm up as usual
including breathing exercises. One of the exercises we participated in was when
our teachers told us to picture one of the characters in our minds from the
play Antigone (this could be Creon, a guard, Ismene or others). We then got
given 5 seconds to become that character in which we would have to think about
what that character’s posture would look like out of the text and into action.
After becoming that character we then got another 5 seconds to really over exaggerate
that character with posture and see what the difference would result in. I
personally chose to use Creon as my character and in the last five seconds I
chose to present him and a strong man with his head high up while his face was screwed
up. I chose to present Creon in this way because I believe that the play has
chosen to present this character as a cold blooded heart that only really cared
for power and not necessarily the people of his city, even if they are his real
blood. This exercise helped develop my characterisation and understanding of
the character as it made me think twice as a person playing the character of
Antigone even though she has a very strong mind, would she be so strongly willing
to stand up against such a powerful man?
We then moved on into looking into the chorus’s in the play
and what we had in mind in order to present these as a class. For the first
chorus we chose to do the movements listed below in the chorus...
We decided to use pre-recorded audio for this chorus so that
when the audience is watching we rein act the chorus with physical theatre
while the audio plays on top. We did this by getting the whole class to read
the chorus at the same time. This is effective because it allows us to vary our
range of the use of multimedia and I believe this will be effective because we
have chosen to have the audience looking out of the windows and down into the playground
while the audio plays in the room meaning that the chorus is able to be
performed at a distance while still being clear. However a problem that could arise
from performing this chorus could be that fact that the audience won’t be able
to clearly understand our physical work as they are watching from a distance
but this problem could be prevented as long as we in this particular physical
theatre movement, choose to slightly over exaggerate our movements in order to
make sure the audience isn’t left confused.
For our second chorus, we decided to split the lines between
the classes into three groups and have each group saying certain lines. Halfway
throughout the chorus roughly 7 of us shine troches towards to the audience on
the line
“Burning
pitch lights your way”
Another group of people also play a trickling effect of rain
dropping on the line
“Next to
the flowing stream of Ismenus”
I believe that this chorus was more concentrated on creating
the atmosphere of sounds and light in order to give the audience that sensation
of being present right in the moment the actors are performing. This piece of
multimedia relates to modern audiences because it is describing a piece of
theatre that was performed 2500 years ago to a modern audience by using
multimedia that we use today which back then they wouldn’t have access to. The
audience are able to understand the piece more because of the use of sound and what’s
being physically analysed.
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