The Chorus

In our modernised version of Antigone, there are two scenes where most of the class comes together to make up the chorus.

In the first scene, the audience are looking outside from the window of 413. A recording of our voices is being played through a speaker in the room. Whilst this is happening, the class is outside in direct view of the windows. We are performing a section of the play using exaggerated body movements. Mr Crowther directed this scene and showed us what movements we needed to make while the recording was playing. When watching one of the rehearsals, I think that the scene looked very interesting and unique as it was different to all of the other scenes that we had performed in the play. It was effective as we were not speaking but still moving around as if we were saying the lines. Ms Goodall recorded us saying the lines and then recorded us breathing heavily. These recordings will be edited to sound more dark and mysterious. Having a recording will strongly support our performance as it means we can work and concentrate more on the body movements to make the scene even better, without worrying about what lines we need to say at the same time.

The second chorus scene was directed by Ms Balaam and Ms Niven. The whole class is situated at the sides of room 411 while the audience is watching some of the smaller group performances. Then we all get into position and begin our performance. Each person in the class was assigned a number (either 1,2 or 3). Dependant on which group you are in, you say your lines at different times. Some lines are all spoken together. The multimedia used in this scene are the sounds of a waterfall coming for certain peoples phone and the torchlights on our phones. The torchlights are effective in showing the light of the sky and stars above the city of Thebes, when we are all frozen in the shape of a skylines. This scene is very different to the first chorus scene, in the sense that we are up close to the audience and speaking our lines whilst performing the movements. Both of the scenes work very well in portraying the chorus and showing different parts of the story in a short period of time.