Antigone Arrest - 30.11.16

We were working on some physical theatre sequences today, looking at the chorus and the guards arresting Antigone when she's trying to bury her brother. Firstly, we went through an exercise of falling to the floor every time Mr Chipp clapped, twisting the legs to the side and sort of sliding down, I don't think my core was strong enough to really control the fall so I fell a bit more heavily than Chipp wanted but I was starting to get the hang of the fall by the end. We then extended this to an amazing game of 'Stuck in the Mud' where if we were 'tug' we fell to the ground and had to be spooned, and rolled over the 'spooner's' body to be back in the game. Following this, we then went through a game where the 'Antigone's' had a 'sword' (really a small stick) which they would wave ferociously at us and we would move away when she took a step forward, we were practising this so that in the play we're sure we'll get away from the mental Antigone who'll be concentrating on acting her convincingly. At first, my reflexes were maybe a bit too slow because I felt that the stick was far enough away that it wasn't going to hit me, so I didn't move, but after a close shave I started to move a bit further and faster when she stepped forward.

We then started to apply these techniques to an actual scene from Antigone where the guards come to her and she takes the sword and starts waving it around. We played 'ladish' guards jeering at her as we came into the middle, at first I found it really weird and uncomfortable doing this to Antigone, but with the others shouting and laughing, I soon got into it and was able to improvise a few lines antagonising Antigone ( that sounds cool). We then used the falling thing when Jonas comes and disarms her so she falls and we grab her. This whole scene was extremely fun to create and it was great getting to play the guards.