First Scene of Antigone- 2/11/2016

Today we actually began to look at the staging and the blocking of Antigone creating the first scene of the play with the metatheatre aspect and the start of the Prologue's speech. I really loved creating the whole sequence and found the way that we came to it to be extremely effective in aiding us to not only create something to look natural and aesthetically pleasing, but also meant we felt comfortable and sure in what we were doing on the stage. Despite only doing it for two hours, I feel like the first scene is already looking very together and effective for the audience.


We began the process of coming up with the first sequence of movement through imagining ourselves in a box with points representing the numbers 0 through to 9, with this we created a sequence through making our birthdate through the movement using our hands and knees, this proved pretty difficult when I had to make 1999 using hands and knees alternately as the point 9 was above my head, don't think the number 9 looked any different to 1 and 2, but I tried.


Using these, we had go into someone else's space and start to coordinate our movements opposite to them, starting to also move together as partners which myself and my partner did through interlocking arms and moving down together, made easier by the fact we had very similar birthdates. I like what we came up with as most of it worked together as if we were fighting, perhaps a bit more abstract than realistic but still effective in portraying this. However, this was made more difficult by the addition of sticks into the movement as they were pretty cumbersome and frequently got in the way, but after a while I feel we managed to effectively incorporate the sticks into our movement, though the last move constantly proved difficult to coordinate. I felt that the movement, whilst effective, was very hard to remember at first and made me pretty confused, however, once I started to put it together with a partner it was pretty easy to get my head around as I could react to my partner's movement.


Next we began the scene with us coming on to the stage as actors which we achieved through being given small stories to use creating unique relationships in the 'Company' and creating a natural rehearsal space on the stage. I thought that the way we came on did manage to portray a rehearsal space to the audience with different characteristics definitely shining through. We then began to rehearse our sequences on the stage and the rest is shown in this video: