Greek Project (Week 5)

In movement this week  we blocked Electra 2's (Abbi) first scene where she is mourning at her fathers grave, mourners join her, but they are the journalists in disguise, we used news papers in this scene so that the chorus could hide behind them, and also throw them about the stage on the line "I cannot pure out the oil, the wine, the milk, the honey" which looked effective as this is when you first bit where Electra is showing hatred towards her mother, the paper throwing movement for me is symbolism for Electra stripping away at her mother to show Clytemnestra's true form. The chorus also do a still image on the line "whether slave or free, neither I can choose or escape it" they form a cage out of their body's which looks great as it makes it look like Electra cannot truly escape what is to come.

In our later lessons that week we were running act one, and I got to show my monologue at the beginning which was great as I couldn't wait to show what I had done, I had learnt my lines so that I could easily move around the space more computably, without looking at my lines every so often, the feed back I got was brilliant, Alex said that I had given her goose bumps, and as this is the first time I appear that is great, I was told that it was good that I had learnt my script and the blocking, as it meant I could focus more on my lines, what they meant and how I was going to make the audience believe what I was saying.
Later in act one there is a scene were Electra and Orestes have just seen one another for the first time, we played around with what we could do such as, leaning over the bath, and also using each others wait, which was effective as it was as if we were relying on the other person to do something it gave it more of a connection between the brother and sister.
One of the chorus scenes we ran was lacking a bit of character, and so they got pass this by saying the lines differently from one another e.g. ignorant, arrogant, childish and sarcastic. Once each member had found the character the scene looked more effective, as it was as if the chorus were arguing with one another with their different opinions.

Today I did some character study on Orestes and I would like to share the photo on the right with you, as I thought it showed the relationship with the chorus and Orestes really well, you see three women around a man who look to be manipulating him with their words, which I thought was an exact representation of the two different people.