Today we explored the relationship between the sibling Antigone and Ismene in their first scene together in the play. Looking at the dialogue we began to explore the subtext and the emotions between the two characters. We self-directed the first part of the scene, exploring ways in which the characters connect: whether Antigone is mocking, sarcastic, spaced out or caring. We decided to play her with a bit of disconnection from the world at the beginning when Ismene says "Are you not well?" and then gradually she connects more with Ismene, sarcastic with a couple of comments but at the same time extremely caring with others as we acknowledged the fact that Antigone believes that this is the last time she will see her sister, and would therefore be trying to say her goodbyes.
I felt that with time we could have developed the scene we had into something really effective as I felt that we were beginning to grasp the characters and how they treated each other. Admittedly, I didn't see subtleness at first that my partner Hannah managed to access and was originally planning on playing Antigone as quite mocking of Ismene yet when we looked at it, there were occasions where what I thought could be mocking, could also have been reminiscing about past memories which worked much better with the idea of Antigone trying to say goodbye and the stage directions with Antigone stroking Ismene's hair.
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