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| All the soil with wooden side compartments. |
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| The soil with the body |
Well the day began with the wonderful job of wheeling dirt in and out of the rehearsal space to fill the stage with soil. Whoop! Looked really cool afterwards actually.
More run-throughs...
though beforehand we had a little safety check going through all the different throws and falls etc. (didn't realise till then quite how many times Creon throws Antigone down) the mud all felt pretty safe and adaptable. However, one of the side compartments containing props consistently stuck, so needed a hard tug to lift up the lid. Funnest part of the day was definitely playing around in the soil.
The day commenced with three run-throughs in succession which required the cut of the massive section with Antigone and Creon in each run-through which was a little unsettling as I wanted to do a full run with the scene in the mud so we could get the run of things, but I knew that it was required for timing, as three different casts meant we were very tight for time. Though, I also haven't had much opportunity to rehearse that section with Emily in a while which I find a bit worrying as it could be a bit rough around the edges if we don't get to do it much before the actual night. Sure it'll be fine...
The run-throughs all seemed to work well, especially in the mud which made it not only look awesome, but added an earthy feeling and just added to the whole effect of the play. The first scene with the guard is definitely improving though it still isn't quite how I want it, just a couple of the lines still feel a little awkward in the mouth. Furthermore, I was way too early with my entrance to the Antigone and Guard scene, just getting paranoid about being late, but also, my entrance was exactly very commanding, yeah... work on that.
Most of the run-through seemed to go pretty well, though one of the main criticisms was that although there was evident work with the coat, I looked pretty camp in places with the hands on hips, and some choices weren't very appropriate, but each time it looked wrong I realised pretty quick that they weren't feeling right so I'm getting a feeling for when to put hands in pockets etc. think I've improved my thinking face as well.
As page I managed to mess up putting Creon's coat on Harriet, which helped me realise the importance of prop placement as I looked like a right idiot on stage desperately trying to get the coat on in time. Got a strategy now though, so shouldn't happen again, I think it was the new staging and actually using a coat for once rather than miming the coat.
I think it's all shaping up to be a very good performance.
The day commenced with three run-throughs in succession which required the cut of the massive section with Antigone and Creon in each run-through which was a little unsettling as I wanted to do a full run with the scene in the mud so we could get the run of things, but I knew that it was required for timing, as three different casts meant we were very tight for time. Though, I also haven't had much opportunity to rehearse that section with Emily in a while which I find a bit worrying as it could be a bit rough around the edges if we don't get to do it much before the actual night. Sure it'll be fine...
The run-throughs all seemed to work well, especially in the mud which made it not only look awesome, but added an earthy feeling and just added to the whole effect of the play. The first scene with the guard is definitely improving though it still isn't quite how I want it, just a couple of the lines still feel a little awkward in the mouth. Furthermore, I was way too early with my entrance to the Antigone and Guard scene, just getting paranoid about being late, but also, my entrance was exactly very commanding, yeah... work on that.
Most of the run-through seemed to go pretty well, though one of the main criticisms was that although there was evident work with the coat, I looked pretty camp in places with the hands on hips, and some choices weren't very appropriate, but each time it looked wrong I realised pretty quick that they weren't feeling right so I'm getting a feeling for when to put hands in pockets etc. think I've improved my thinking face as well.
As page I managed to mess up putting Creon's coat on Harriet, which helped me realise the importance of prop placement as I looked like a right idiot on stage desperately trying to get the coat on in time. Got a strategy now though, so shouldn't happen again, I think it was the new staging and actually using a coat for once rather than miming the coat.
I think it's all shaping up to be a very good performance.
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