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The Haemon Scene

We worked on the Haemon scene in more frequent shorter sessions so I have condensed the process into one log. 

We first worked on Haemon's entrance in which he interrupts a conversation between Antigone and Nan, because Nurse is a comical character she is hesitant to leave and makes the situation a bit awkward and uncomfortable for Antigone and Haemon. Antigone and Haemon have had an argument the night before and that is immediately obvious due to the distance between them and Antigone's first line 'forgive me'. We staged it so that Haemon would come close to her twice, following her to front stage left and attempting physical contact by touching her hand showing his reasonable human efforts to comfort his fiancé, then she throws him off annoyed at herself for ruining her chances at making love to him and moves hastily to front stage right, again Haemon follows her and hugs her from behind which she enjoys and encourages and I think she forgets for a moment that this will be the last time she is ever with her loving fiancé. This lasts for about ten seconds before Antigone moves on to much more serious matters and Haemon gets frustrated by her childlike words and moves to the chair which is stage left, it creates a distance that is maintained for the rest of the scene with occasional pleads from Haemon which bring him further forward but Antigone puts him back in his place whenever he tries to come towards her. This shows Haemon's confusion and willing to patch up the relationship and marry Antigone even when she is being so seemingly ridiculous. 
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