The session centred
around Antigone, the play which the class will be doing for our Performing
Arts. The task for the lesson was to represent the main aspects of the plot through a series of
movements and images.
The version we are
doing is a contemporary version written by Jean Anhuil in 1942 as a social
commentary on the Nazi occupation of France at the time. It has the same plot
line as the original Antigone written by Sophocles in Athens BC, but it has
contemporary twists with some comments made about modern things and the use of
metatheatre e.g. at the beginning when the Prologue introduces the characters
and the fact that some will die.
Using the plot line
we came up with a series of movements in groups of five however, in the time we
had we spent far too much time on the start of the sequence trying to get it
synchronised leaving us too little time to come up with anything to do with the
three suicides at the end and had to end with the sentence of Antigone to be
immured. I felt the ending was
ineffective and we should have come up with something more striking such as a
dynamic movement as a group representing Antigone hanging herself, perhaps with
some lifts adding height. Furthermore, I believe that my part as Creon could
have been played better by exuberating more power and having more of a conflict
with Antigone.
Here is the film of
our final performance:
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