Second Lesson.

1. Which scene did you work on?

I worked on the Edward Miller adaptation of Antigone, which was adapted for a more modern audience. In this scene, Antigone confronts Creon about the burial of her brother, polyneices. Knowing she has defied Creon, she anxiously awaits her punishment.

2. What do you think of the style of writing?

I found the style of writing was still very formal, but more relaxed for a modern day audience. A modern day audience can still understand the emotions and the subjects as they are universal. Themes such as death, sexism and war are all common in todays society, but cane overpowering if you do the adapt the text to a modern audience so that they can understand it all.

3. How was this scene different to the other script used in the lesson?

In the original text it was very word heavy with some very complicated words to understand whereas in this adaptation it was less of a text and more of a natural conversation between the two characters.

4. Did the language make the characters change?

Yes, they did. I noticed that when we used the original text we are more focused in what we are saying so that we don't muck up our lines rather than performing. In this adaptation, we focused more on the relationship between Creon and Antigone. We were more used to the language and we felt more relaxed performing and could utilise our techniques.
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We later created an adaptation of Antigone on our own for a modern audience. My group decided to set the play during the First World War. We decided this as it wasn't to hard to understand and it was also modern for the audience to enjoy. We created modern interpretations of the characters in the play with Antigone as a very 'posh' english woman,along with her sister Ismene, who was also very well spoken. I played the part of the exceptionally camp servant who had a lust for Creon and had a special talent for eavesdropping.
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1. Susanna's group

This was a very comical interpretation set in a primary school. With Creon as the headteacher and Antigone and Ismene as naughty school children. The chorus were are a group of gossiping schoolgirls, which was surprisingly effective.

2. Benji's goup

They decided to set their version on an iMessage group chat. They demonstrated brilliant use of multimedia, using ringtones and internet terms. Very comical and well performed.

3. Alex's group

This was set in the Big Brother House. Crean was played as the house leader and showed clear status even in a modern interpretation.

4. Roseby's group

This was set amongst the workings of the mafia. This had very strong characters and was an interesting time period to set the play.

5. Erics group

Very, VERY funny. I couldn't stop laughing. The characters of the servants were particularly hilarious. I thoroughly enjoyed.

6. Stacey's group

Set in a bankrupt pub. Crean was actually the father who couldn't afford to pay for the pub and the rest of the caster the suffering family. I could see it may have been some sort of Eastenders themed version.

7. Matteo's group

Set in a modern London gang. Matteo was a very amusing Creon and interacting well with Ella, who played one of his henchman.