My group were part of the Antigone group and were set the task to use our interpretation in the scene of Haemon and Creon arguing. After going over the lines we had come up with the idea that Creon was disrespecting his father and that Haemon saw his son as disobedient to elders. In result, we had decided to set the scene by Peter, who was playing Creon, and I to be discussing the situation behind his father's back and in turn Marion, playing Haemon, to over hear the conversation. This lead to the situation of Haemon bursting in with anger and confusion. Me on the other hand was playing the leader and chorus, where in our interpretation, I was observing the situation and came to the conclusion that peace was what was needed and that brawling was not the solution. In addition, this lead to the idea of my monologue at the end of the scene that love could not hold these two together, but peace should arise, as well as apologies.
As we had explored our scene even further, we had been set the task of composing a letter as our character to another character in the scene or the whole piece. My letter was to Creon, asking to apologise to his father Haemon as personally I felt that it was not at all polite to argue with the one who raised you since his father raised him with care and love which contradicted to the fact that there was no love found in the scene itself. The letters allowed us to explore our character in more detail of our own interpretation and exposed our understanding of the scene itself.
As we had got more confident with our scene, we had decided to play around with it to see if we were pronouncing words clearly, with diction and correct projection. For example, we had tried different accents such as Liverpudlian, American and so on. In addition we had also increased the pace and did the scene backwards, this was to help test our knowledge of the scene along with confidence.
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