Duologues In Sophocles 'Antigone'

Antigone
Classical Theatre: Duologues

For a classical theatre assignment we were given a duologue from the Greek play, Antigone, written by Sophocles. The dialogue takes place between Creon, King of Thebes, and his son, Haemon. My partner for this was Brandon, who took the part of Creon and I played Haemon. The scene is about Haemon coming to confront his father concerning his decision on Antigones execution, Haemon’s fiancé.
Having previously read Oedipus the King, I had a reasonable knowledge of the circumstances prior to this play.
In the early stages of working the script we did a number of exercises to help us really work hard on the long monologues within the text, which could easily have become boring to an audience if the actor isn’t fully engaging with the text. One of the exercises we did was for the person speaking the text to stand behind their
We discussed each of these decisions and compared them to what the other had said previously and what we felt our characters reactions would be to what had been said, to try and maintain a flow of performance that didn’t jar and seemed natural. To make these decisions we had to look at the circumstances given to us prior to the scene and why the dialogue was taking place. Things that were really important to know within the decision making process were what the Greeks themselves felt to be the most important things within a man’s life; the gods, his family, and his City. In this scene Haemon sees Antigone as his future family, and doesn’t want her to die, but he has to make sure he doesn’t disrespect his father whilst trying to confront him about the issue at hand. He uses a lot of tactics when trying to do this, and uses the importance of the city as leverage for his side of the