Thursday 28th April 2016 - First Run Through Of Antigone

In this rehearsal we did our first full run through of the play, when we sung the harmonies before the prologue, it was not as good as when we first rehearsed it. This was because each harmonies was not equally split up and therefore the main melody was not featured enough and it was lost. We need to find another time to work this out and figure out who is singing who and at what times and dynamics. I think that other than this the first half went really well and smoothly. Our transitions between scenes were good especially between the prologue, chorus 1 and episode 1, this was beneficial as we were able to see how long this will take in the final performance, as well as this it gave us time to work on other things that needed more work. In chorus 1 when we use body percussion to support the text, this works with the rest of the chorus as it provides a contrast to the rest of it, as well as this it makes this chorus stand out from the others and not just look like every other scene.

On the other hand when we got to chorus 3 we began to slow down, this is partly because many of us were not 100% confident with our chorus lines and cue lines and therefore this slowed our run down as these seemed very hesitant. Because of this we also were not acting out these lines and there was not a clear understanding of what the text is about. My targets for the next rehearsal is to make sure I am more familiar with these lines and cue lines, as well as this I want to make sure that there is more energy when saying this so that the chorus lift the whole show up rather than dragging it down. This is because the chorus acts as another point of view to a situation and we need to work together to make this apparent to the audience.

My main focus for next rehearsal is to work on the Bacchus chorus as at the moment the choreography doesn't have much movement and therefore doesn't reflect the mood in this chorus. We are going to revise the blocking so that we can make alterations to the choreography to make it more relevent to the text. As well as this we need to revise the blocking for chorus one as when we are split into three different groups it drags down the energy and the is not as dynamic as we would like it to be.