An exhausting night: we had four hours rehearsing the chunk in the middle of the scene between Antigone and Creon. Almost learnt all of the lines in this section thank god as it was hanging over my head having a daunting amount of lines to learn. Obviously still struggling remembering when I move where but only needed a bit of prompting when going over the section we had already blocked the week before.
Loved the part where Antigone and Creon shouted at each other for a solid hour whilst trying to work out the choreography of the final bit of this section where Antigone and Creon are really going at each other. I think it's especially strong as it's the section where Antigone really holds power over Creon who is losing all of the advantage he had gained through the one word "happiness". We definitely still need to work on the choreography because it turned into a bit of aimlessly following around and not really having a purpose of direction. It needs to be more uncontrolled but controlled... more jagged, strong movements from both parties, Creon in an attempt to regain power and Antigone to maintain it.
Performing the 40-minute scene through was absolutely exhausting. Towards the end I began stumbling over the words just because my eyes were going a blurry and I was feeling a little hot and faint, but we got through it in the end. It didn't actually feel like 40 minutes. but it explained why I felt so tired by the end of it. It was a very useful experience going through it fully, and pretty pleased with how it went considering it was the first run-through. There is definitely an enormous amount of work left to do on the lines and action. I've especially found movement and positioning of the hands the main problem and occasionally not really known where to direct the eyes (which can be unfortunate in making me look a but lost or blind) but all in all, feel like we've made some really good progress in terms of the character and rehearsing.
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