In our next rehearsal we looked at devising more material for our piece and on developing what we
had already. The main comments we got given on what we already had was that we could push the Creon says scene so much further, starting off with something quite innocent and then it slowly tipping into a more darker area. Taking this feedback on we made it so that we begin by the four off us running around laughing and playing it, as Eric introduces it as a game of Creon says almost like you were in a circus. We then go through a series of lighthearted things, such as run around or clap your hands. Its starts to tip slightly when the game becomes to run around like a chicken and then even more so when it becomes to wash the floor. We also added in the idea of the things that Creon doesn't say being things like 'Be independent' or 'Stand up for your rights', because its said out loud it brings awareness to that but because Creon didn't say it, we can't do it. It then becomes even more dark and twisted when we are told to strangle each other.
After this we then felt it was important to bring the actual scene that we were devising from into our piece. This was a court scene from Antigone where she stands up for her right to bury her brother. To begin with we thought about taking some of our original ideas about creating a trial scene within a mafia organisation, with the guards creating some sort of comic dumb an dumber relationship. However, after trying it out we came to realize that this idea was never going to work. In my opinion the scene just had nothing to offer, this was partly due to that fact we had discarded the script and hadn't written down any lines off our own, and therefore all the dialogue was improvised. This didn't create a successful scene as it meant it had no structure (and so no beginning or end), or any sense or drama or climax, the whole scene seemed to juts float in between things with nothing of any real concrete work or pace. The best way to make sure the scene had structure was to take lines from the script. The line we picked out was 'Your makeshift laws are not equal to those of the gods', this was to be said by Antigone. From this we devised a sort of soundscape out of the lines and each characters intentions. Ismene was to repeat the phrase 'I obey the law' over and over again while holding Antigone back because this was what her character represented, she would rather conform than get into trouble. The two guards were then to alternate between 'Law, law law' and 'and order'. The whole soundscape was to build up until Creon gave a sign by slamming down a chair, in which Antigone manages to break from her sister grip and rise to stand on the block where she then repeats her line. At this point the scene needed to come to a conclusion, and so we took the end result of the play where Antigone hangs herself. For this we decided it would tie in nicely to bring back the idea of Creon says, ie 'Creon says hang yourself'. As the person playing Antigone, I found that scene effected me emotional to quite a large extent, therefore I feel it must have had a large effect on the audience as well. To watch someone commit suicide by force of what Creon says I found quite harrowing and suspenseful as there was a lot of resisting and will to play out in the spaces between the hanging and being told to hang.
The piece was then ended with a lit bit of information about the issues of women and how that relates into today, this was t provoke the audience to take what they have seen in their own lives. We talked about how in 440 bc it was Antigone, in 2012 we had Malala and how recently a women was fired for refusing to wear high heels to work, ending with 'Whos next'.
After this we then felt it was important to bring the actual scene that we were devising from into our piece. This was a court scene from Antigone where she stands up for her right to bury her brother. To begin with we thought about taking some of our original ideas about creating a trial scene within a mafia organisation, with the guards creating some sort of comic dumb an dumber relationship. However, after trying it out we came to realize that this idea was never going to work. In my opinion the scene just had nothing to offer, this was partly due to that fact we had discarded the script and hadn't written down any lines off our own, and therefore all the dialogue was improvised. This didn't create a successful scene as it meant it had no structure (and so no beginning or end), or any sense or drama or climax, the whole scene seemed to juts float in between things with nothing of any real concrete work or pace. The best way to make sure the scene had structure was to take lines from the script. The line we picked out was 'Your makeshift laws are not equal to those of the gods', this was to be said by Antigone. From this we devised a sort of soundscape out of the lines and each characters intentions. Ismene was to repeat the phrase 'I obey the law' over and over again while holding Antigone back because this was what her character represented, she would rather conform than get into trouble. The two guards were then to alternate between 'Law, law law' and 'and order'. The whole soundscape was to build up until Creon gave a sign by slamming down a chair, in which Antigone manages to break from her sister grip and rise to stand on the block where she then repeats her line. At this point the scene needed to come to a conclusion, and so we took the end result of the play where Antigone hangs herself. For this we decided it would tie in nicely to bring back the idea of Creon says, ie 'Creon says hang yourself'. As the person playing Antigone, I found that scene effected me emotional to quite a large extent, therefore I feel it must have had a large effect on the audience as well. To watch someone commit suicide by force of what Creon says I found quite harrowing and suspenseful as there was a lot of resisting and will to play out in the spaces between the hanging and being told to hang.
The piece was then ended with a lit bit of information about the issues of women and how that relates into today, this was t provoke the audience to take what they have seen in their own lives. We talked about how in 440 bc it was Antigone, in 2012 we had Malala and how recently a women was fired for refusing to wear high heels to work, ending with 'Whos next'.
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