Monday 6th March - bits and pieces

Today was another bits and pieces rehearsal, running various scenes separately (feel this will be the general format on Mondays). Again, myself, Harriet (t'other Creon), Haemon and Chorus went through our little section towards the end. There were a couple of issues with grasping the emotional changes through the scene, especially on my part I feel. This really wasn't helped by me continually blanking my lines for some reason - not really had this up to this point and it shook me a bit meaning I didn't really manage to act as well as I ought to have done.

There was something about this second page with Haemon -->
where I struggled getting the tone appropriate to an emotion. Wasn't quite sertain whether I should say it as an emotional father or as one trying to emotionally distance himself and make his son understand the extent his duty to the law forces him to go.

I also felt awkward with the staging for my second part on this page about 'becoming a man' as I just stand, I don't have solution to this and probably just need to get over myself as Chipp hasn't mentioned it looking strained, but I felt there too much of me just looking at Haemon and standing opposite. I don't know if either should really move at all because it is quite intense, but it just doesn't quite sit right with me.

Towards the end of it, Creon just gets tired having 'done all this already with Antigone' and on the final part he's just quite harsh to Haemon telling him basically 'to man-up and deal'.

I think the blocking will end up feeling fine, but the emotional tone shifts in the text definitely needs some work, on both parts.