Evaluation

the performance of Antigone was good in my opinion, I felt like that the use of promenade theatre helped to make the play more exciting, interesting and kept the audiences attention because they never knew where they were going to go next or what was going to happen it was especially new for us as well. There was a range of multimedia used throughout the performance: videos, lights, pre recorded sounds, alarms and microphones. This made the performance interesting and made the play Antigone to a modern era and it also captured the audience because they had to have their full attention so they wouldn't miss anything. Overall, as this was used it gave the play a twist because sometimes only iPhone lights were used or sounds were being played but the audience didn't know where from. I feel like it made the audience more intrigued.

The multimedia impacted the audience because it was something new and also made such an old play new with using loads of technology. For some scenes we did them in groups and of course everyone had different views to the play and used multimedia in a slightly different way. The multimedia had a positive impact on the audience because it would make the piece simple to understand the piece aswell as the dialog of the play even if was modernised or the original text. It also made the play more unique and creative because there were so many different techniques.

the performance would not have been as effective without multimedia in my opinion because the storyline would of been confusing and would have made no sense. I think because we were split into groups we had a chance to interrupt it in different ways which eventually then made us use some elements of multimedia. It made the performance more unique because people could be more creative in the way they presented their scene which made the audience curious about what new they were going to be presented, everyone had used multimedia in a different way. The language that was originally used in the text is very different to how we speak now, it can be hard to understand, I feel like the use of video and sound helped audience members who were struggling to understand start to have a hint of what is going on, and made the audience have a sense what emotions the actors were feeling.

I think the the scene where Antigone buries Polynices, was effective because they used the space they were given well and I liked how they really engaged the audience by interacting with the, there use of props they used such as an alarm and police tape made the scene more realistic and made the audience understand the story better. There use of comedy made the scene different from the others and the characters contrasted because the guards added comedy but Antigone was serious.