26/03/15

We looked at two different scripts of Antigone, the script I had was an older context. Taffie and I worked on the scene where Creon finds out Antigone has buried her brother. I didn't really like how the dialogue  was worded because I didn't understand it. I didn't think I could relate to the feeling either Antigone and Creon were feeling as I couldn't understand it and most of the words were blunt. It was clear about their status and was obvious, as you could see how although Creon had more power than Antigone that she wasn't intimidated by that. 

We then got into groups and had to recreate a part of Antigone in a more modern context. I was in a group with Taffie, Jamie, Connor, Orianna and Jed. We didn't want to differ from the traditional elements of Greek tragedy too much, so we kept the chorus element. We set the scene in a modern location - a school. Creon was the headmaster, Antigone and Ismene were two girls who attended the school and the chorus were people who gossiped, imitating a stereotypical school. However, we tried to stick to the traditional language in Creons case, to show that whether he is the king of headmaster he still has the same mentality.

At the beggining, the chorus set the scene by saying "did you hear?", the message was passed around the circle so we could imitate the idea of rumors being spread at school and in this case the rumor was that Antigone(Me) had gone against school rules and Ismene had tried to take the fall for her. We did this because we wanted to put a modern twist on something that was very traditional and hard hitting but we wanted to stay true to what had happened in the play without morphing the story into something else so we kept the ideas very simply so they wouldn't be distorted too much.

 The role I played was very upfront and disrespectful towards Creon which resulted in me talking over either Creon or Ismene and Ismeene(Played by connor) was trying to resolve the matter  which we felt stuck to the original Antigone since Ismeene thought logically instead of just doing it. After the Scene between Antigone, Ismeene and Creon was done, the Chorus ended it up with what had gone on and re-called what they'd heard in the same way a traditional Greek Chorus would have done.

OTHER GROUPS:

GROUP 1: used a phone whatsapp group to portray to scene- modern language was funny to watch and was really creative 

GROUP 2: made it into a gang meet up and two prisoners were ismene and Antigone with two body guards, used a lot of street talk

GROUP 3: theirs was set in big brother where Antigone was being threatend of being kicked out of the house because of burying her brother the performance was good but began to drag on. 

GROUP 4: this was set in New York and they had the accents , the scenario was where they were in an Italian group and they were sent to kill people but then attend Polynices funeral but Creon and his body guard got in an argument with everyone and they started to argue. The performance was amazing and the storyline was well interpreted. 

GROUP 5: posh and old fashioned language was used. Creon was very stuck up and  so he refused to listen to what Antigone had to say. Antigone and Ismene were also posh and quite spoilt.

GROUP 6: Creon acts as if he's really strong and defensive but has a fear of dirt, so when Antigone spits on his hand he starts to panic. He relies heavily on his guards to protect him.

GROUP 7: Creon owns a pub and fires the two brothers but wants Antigone to still work in the pub. She says she's going to leave, and refuses to stay if her brothers are fired.