Exactly one week until I play Creon! Not sure I feel ready...
Today we did a full run-through including the massive Creon-Antigone section. Caitlin was playing Antigone so I was Creon, this was a little daunting having never rehearsed the whole thing through before and I wasn't certain I'd actually be able to perform it all... I did!
The rehearsal seemed alright, not perfect, but decent for a first full-on full run-through. I don't know whether it was nerves or something, but I had a feeling of dissatisfaction with everything I did all night, nothing went overly wrong, I just didn't feel strong. Which is annoying. It was also in this rehearsal I first worked fully with the jacket, hehe... this was awkward. With this came the realisation that I really needed to work on using the coat to look like it was something which I wore everyday. There were a couple of stumbles on lines (brain blocks) and one moment where I completely corpsed!!!!!!! It was down to the fact I got confused, about to do the original blocking forgetting the blocking we had come up with the previous night and I just confused and looked out to the audience (Chipp) for help - got none, and just felt truly ashamed afterwards. My fear of doing this again however meant that for the rest of it, I really concentrated on what I was doing. Rehearsals give you the opportunity to go wrong before the performance at least.
We have a new Haemon. One week before performances. It was a strange new dynamic haveing a new Haemon and one who was taller than me... and an actual boy! What?! But he was really good, so it was actually pretty easy after a while relaxing into the new dynamic. But yeah, calling him "My little boy" when he was a good few inches taller than me just felt a little weird and actually served to make me feel younger and more feminine than ever before (as Creon).
I got the lucky job of teaching Emin (new Haemon) the fight scene at the start of the Chorus section, but he was actually a really quick learner and could probably do it better than me by the end of it. To be honest, I think the fight sequence worked better with Emin than it had with Shanice, he was a lot more violent than Shanice (by the end of the night I had bruises all the way up my arms due to the interlocking movement of the two sticks). The rest of the night was spent teaching Emin all the big movement/ Chorus sections which was also really useful to us to get them straight in our heads and work well with Emin.
Bring on next week!
(don't... please?)
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