Please write a concise review of Antigone, produced by the Theatre Department at Northeastern. You may take into account elements of design (set, lights, sound, costumes), direction, acting, voice work, use of the stage, clarity of the story, and elements of time and movement.
Some questions to help you frame your ideas… Did the story make sense to you? Could you understand the language? Could you hear the actors? Did you believe them? Did anything surprise you? Were there times when your interest flagged and/or your attention wandered and why or why not? Did the director’s concept work? Did the set, lighting, sound and costume design support the telling of the story or was anything distracting? Which performances did you enjoy and why? Did any actors seem weak to you and why? Were the actors physically and vocally specific or general? What were the “rules of the world of the play?” Did this make sense? How did the company manage the passage of time on stage from scene to scene and in general? Were entrances and exits dynamic? Did you notice anything that connects to what we’ve been doing in class? How did the actors handle props/objects? And if anything stood out to you as being less than you expected, what would you have done as a director, designer or actor to fix it?
Essay should be carefully constructed, edited and proofread. If you are unfamiliar with the style of a theater review, please check the New York Times and Boston Globe for examples. As always, I suggest reading your work out loud as part of your editing process. And to write this in two pages will require a great deal of editing and structure. I’ll be grading you on the depth, clarity, and specificity of your thought as well as your accuracy and style. So write this as if you were submitting it in an advanced English class.
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