First of all, my oscar worthy performance apparently came from the read-through,with my amazing portrayal of the 'stage directions' as I felt comfortable in this role, and the emotional detachment really came across and really affected the audience.
Split into groups, we had Nurse (yours truly) Antigone and Antigone's subtext. This was so that we could really access the actual emotions and reasons behind Antigone's speech, eventually reaching the point where we realised that Antigone loved this: being caught and being the only one to know the secret. When we performed this, it felt quite strong and I thought the 'subtext' did a fantastic job of saying what the subtext was to what Antigone says. Just going to point out that Nurse was obviously also amazing...
In pairs now, we had to use this subtext in just the scene to try and portray Antigone's feeling. What I found challenging was trying to make the nurse seem old and naggy, I had been playing it quite different to this and had sunk into the role, comfortable in what we had been doing, putting new aspects in aws a huge challenge and I think by the end of it I had I given up, but my portrayal was much weaker. Especially in the performance as I felt extremely awkward at the start for some reason and this meant that the speech was stunted, my portrayal terrible and the actions wrong. Half-way through I began to get comfortable again and this meant that I was able to elicit a couple of laughs from the audience, but my performance was just embarrassing and I couldn't edit the film to analyse it because I just couldn't watch myself back. It was so, so bad. You can see the awkwardness even in my movement especially when I was standing as I kept crossing the arms while speaking then relaxing while listening. The lines were awkward, as I just forgot what I'd done earlier and made it up on the spot. Just generally terrible. However, I like how Jenna did Antigone as she seemed quite scarily detached from the conversation as if she was enjoying the idea of burying her brother.
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