Rehearsal for Antigone
"Acting is behaving truthfully in imagined circumstances"
~Meisner~
Today we held our rehearsal inside the Theatre to help us practice our pieces within the space we will be performing in. This helps us get a feel of our spacings within our performances, making sure we are not using to much or to little. Also it gives us an idea of how much we need to project our voices so we can be heard by everyone from the front to the back rows.
During our rehearsal we added in a stage slap during the first conversation between Ismene and Creon. As Creon says the line "swear to me" he slaps Ismene across the face. We decided to do this to build upon his character. It tells the audience the subtext and hidden meaning that he is not a nice man as well as letting them know he feels threatened and needs to show his authority to feel in control.
We performed our piece to the class and got the following feedback
- we exclaimed a few words
- don't walk around the performance space unless there is a reason
- good projection and dictation
- we were convincing and realistic, for example our slap didn't feel forced
- audience was pulled in
The one thing I do think we need to work on next lesson is our ending. I feel awkward when I have to be on stage without any lines at the end, and Taylor has the same problem half way through our piece. I feel like we need to think about our characters inner monologues, and have them react to the audience about what is being said onstage.
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