On our final rehearsal before the performance on Wednesday, we had about two hours to go over any final pieces that needed improving. Because we spent quite a long time on Saturday working on my scenes with The Boy, the majority of this rehearsal was spent on the middle scene with all of the band members and the actor playing The Singer wasn't there so I filled in for her. We focused on the moment where the Drummer takes the Boy into a headlock and humiliates him, says that he is going to shave all his hair off. Before we worked on this The Bass Player and The Singer had a very unrealistic, muted reaction to the abuse taking place so we really had to work on building up the pace of this scene to make it more realistic and make their reactions more shocked, fluid and natural. So we decided that The Bass Player and The Singer would have a moment where they looked each other in complete shock and confusion before they approached The Drummer hoping that he would stop the aggression but also with trepidation because they obviously have fear towards him because of his violent nature. And because I had filled in for another actor in this scene, before we performed on the Wednesday I had to fill her in on what we had done, what we had changed, and the way she should respond to everybody else's lines and actions in the scene as well.
On Mondays lesson the actors playing the part of the nurse and I began to lolok over the first scene between Antigone and Nurse. The characters are very close to one another, the Nurse has raised Antigone from childhood so feels a very maternal need to make sure she stays safe and makes the right decision. However, it is also quite a friendly relationship, we decided to show this by starting the scene by making Antigone walk on stage to see the nurse asleep in her chair, pick up some grapes and see an opportunity: she drops one of the grapes into nurses mouth which wakes her up choking, we then go straight into the script. This is not an action Antigone would do to someone like Creon, it shows both the childishness of her character and her fondness for her Nurse. As is evident in the script, Antigone has obviously just had an incredibly sensory experience with nature - because she knows this is one of her last moments to experience nature in all its beauty so she fully take...
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