Notes from November 3rd

**Indicates repeated notes that are still not being addressed.

**All: Always and Always more volume and engage your mask arms out and to the sides

**All be aware of you new masks--where are the eyes on your new mask and when is it engaged up or down or to the sides--work with partners for this

**Run lifts with Kendall and Bryce to make them smooth, one solid move and safe
**For Bryce lift, pull him up on pomp and honors and Bryce drag our your line for movement 

**Don't adjust masks and costumes on stage--if you must make it a choreographed, deliberate movement rather than actors adjusting and fixing onstage

**All pinning masks straps to your hair to help keep it upright
Gwyneth-hands on hips reads really well as Nurse for both Masks..use this!

**Guards--Arms--Triangle formation--slides into position

**Ismene--more back mask when you collapse into your chorus--show us the back mask while standing then fall into them

**Creon--Volume, Posture, Facial expression and energy, don't look down, use arms out to sides!!

Lucy-pin your mask to help 

Maggie and Quin--ARMS!!

Antigone allow yourself to touch Haemon's mask when embracing you did it on Monday and it was beautiful

Haemon-adjust your mask lower on head

**Amelia/Bryce/Kendall--watch volume dropping and where you place your face when delivering lines

Haemon/Antigone--watch your volume dropping too low in intimate moments together

**All--lift Back mask directly to audience on Blinding eye motion, bigger & more deliberate blinding

**Gwyneth & Lucy-use your arms--larger and broader on slow motion exit

**"Have you tortured perhaps?" Bigger recoil away from Creon Haemon's chorus

**Creon--learn the "shoot...wave...wind" line so it can be done in one breath and full tempo to match chorus movement

Nurse & Antigone-try some of comforting scene with Antigone's back mask

Sofia S/Zoe/Julia/Amelia/Lucy-gorgeous storytelling throughout tonight

All--engage more with the story and support it as the Chorus 

**All--must get "YES in my father's own voice" in our bodies and voices together as one

Eurydice- This was amazing, keep doing it! (Beautiful work Eurydice--go even further with trying to connect to Haemon & Creon, consider trying to find moments to speak and no one hears you (the role of the Silent Woman--why no one will hear her or listen to her)

**Haemon- When dying--use your right arm to balance your face/mask on to help :)

Lovely moment-Ismene on reentrance monologue-go further with that


Guard--salutes, arms out, pointing all help with engaging back mask--do more

All--page 37-38 pick up the tempo between lines, drive the story

Guards--really be gleeful and excited for the party and bonus so we have more of a comedic payoff with the line about nix on the wives

Guards--need to engage back mask so much more as they are very dark in the lights and therefore vanish quickly

Guards-much more precise exit past Diego, lines and angles like top of show

Mattie-awesome transformation of Guard into chorus character

All---remember to keep energy in your back mask and movements through fingers and neck rotations

Antigone-slow drags of feet on floor to express frustration-yes keep it!!

All-keep Sound Ques going throughout Creon/Antigone scene-breaths, scratches hisses

Amelia & Bryce walk with purpose to Juror's Box on page 48

YES/NO whispers---so haunting, keep it up!

CHORUS LEADERS: run Yes, in my father's own voice and the "Shoot--wave---wind" section

Bryce and Kendall: don't adjust costumes when you stand up as brothers

Page 54--pick up tempo of urgency in storytelling Creon

All guards join Amelia/Grace/Diego on foot stomps in Story sequence to keep it Loud and Strong--no room for timid foot stomps. During the army breaking into Thebes section

ALL--pick up tempo and urgency, drive towards the end

ALL: remove any jewelry, bracelets, nail polish not approved by costumes crew

Haemon/Creon: don't wait for Antigone's cries to finish before continuing fight, rather use them to motivate the anger and need for your confrontation

Guards--beautiful work in last scene offering letter and help

**Bigger and precise percussion on the entrance of Messenger--scare Antigone and the guards

**Remember someone is always watching you from the audience, so if you are onstage you are part of the story!!

Thanks, Clara