My group and I's set to work with was the main foyer/reception desk, so this meant we had a very unique but difficult place to work with, it is a nice big space with plenty of depth and layers. If you used your diaphragm, you would be heard all round the room and the area wasn't crammed with anything so the audience would be able to see everything going on in the scene if it took place anywhere. A TV is right beside the front desk so it was very handy to show footage of films we created. The reception area would be a nice place to play audio or music as the speakers should be pretty clear in a place like that. Our site is a very busy place, and because this is the Brit School we are talking about, students, staff and visitors are always in the foyer, so trying to rehearse and then perform would be a tricky task to manage. Also with the amount of different people who aren't the audience in there, it was going to be hard to play and audio that the real audience would be able to hear.
As we did ensemble work last term, it was very easy for me to start working on the chorus straight away. I know that I'm a disciplined child so being focused and committed wasn't that much of a problem for me, however, it was a little bit hard at times to stay completely still as other kids would disrupt us from time to time. The multimedia that we incorporated with the chorus was mobile phone torches and audio. As said above, the audio was played whilst the chorus moved together, and the torches were used when the chorus were placed in the 'skyline' position, to look like lights in the city (this made Antigone more modern as it looked like more of an urban city.) Repeating the chorus lines to the phone was very easy, and learning the other very few lines of the chorus was simple too, yet I only knew them a few days before the actual performance because I was very busy and the Spanish trip did get in the way of everything, but I was ready for the performance with no worries.
Scenes from Antigone:
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Multimedia used and locations
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How did the multimedia in each scene enhance the performance?
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1. Creon announces that Eteocles will be honoured and Polynices will be shamed and left un-buried.
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Video to be shown on screen in reception.
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The video shown was a news report, and as it was a TV it gave a nice modern atmosphere to the play, and it had only just started.
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2. Antigone goes to Ismene to persuade her to assist the burial of their brother. Ismene refuses.
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By the tree - video shown of the thoughts of the characters.
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3. Antigone goes to bury her brother.
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Round of wooden stumps.
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The wooden stumps makes the scene more stylized in a way, because it is showing that the body is the centre of attention, so you focus on it more
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4. Creon looks for the support of the chorus of Theban Elders in his decision to leave Polynices unburied.
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Creon announces from fire escape door of 415 - chorus round the tree looking up. Audience looking up also.
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Creates big layer and that easily tells the audience who has the most power.
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5. A Sentry reports the burial of Polynices. Creon insists that the Sentry finds out who or face death.
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Filmed footage of event is shown on screen top of stairs. Sentry talking to Creon.
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6. Chorus sing about honouring gods.
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From the yard up to windows of 413
Recorded chorus played.
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Without the need to both say the lines and do the movements created an effect because it felt as if maybe the Gods were saying it because it was played from above.
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7. Sentry returns with the Culprit: Antigone. Creon confronts her.
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Burst into 413 - audience turn to see.
Lighting used.
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8. Creon confronts Ismene. Ismene tries to confess but Antigone won't allow it. And in the end, the two sisters are imprisoned.
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Still in 413 but Creon live speaks to a projected Ismene. Antigone is walked out the room and joins the real Ismene - escorted off.
Lighting used
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9. Haemon both pledges allegiance to his father, Creon, and asks that Antigone be spared. After the discussion deteriorate, Haemon storms out vowing never to speak to him again.
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Traverse in 413 - iphone lights as the two talk. Throughout confrontation, lights go out, one by one.
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10. Creon choses to spare Ismene, and to bury Antigone alive. As she is dragged out, the chorus express their Sorrow.
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One light left on Creon's face. Sound of s body being dragged...etc.
Projection and video used
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11. Tiresias attempts to advise Creon that what he is doing is wrong and that the Gods are angry. The prophecy of a dead son is mentioned.
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Tiresias never moves his mouth but what he says coupled with weird underscore is played through speakers of 415.
Projected video played
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12. The chorus, terrified, begs him to take Tiresias' advice. Shaken, Creon agrees to release Antigone and bury Polynices.
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As many chorus as possible fill cavities of 415 and urge Creon. Three doors and side grated window thing.
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13. Chorus deliver a choral ode to the god Dionysus.
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14. Messenger informs Eurydice of Haemon and Antigone's death.
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Filmed footage on repeat of Haemon stabbing himself and Antigone hanging, swinging from a branch.
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The video repeating itself shows that it's constantly in the minds of Eurydice, which is quite creepy and eery because of the tragic contents.
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15. Carrying the body of his dead son Haemon, Creon is then met by a 2nd messenger informing him of Eurydice's death.
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Audience back outside looking at tree. Creon walking through the courtyard, holding Creon, confronted by messenger at the tree. Chorus look down from 415.
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