Short brief of all 4 plays.
Antigone
Antigone and her sister want to help her brothers Eteocles and Polyneices. As prophecy predicts, both brothers will kill each other in the battle of thrones of Thebes. But she finds out that both of her brothers are dead. They buried Eteocles but Creon does not give a permission to bury another brother. Antigone infarcts the law and buries Polyneices. Creon finds out and lock her away in prison. Full of depression, she commits suicide. Meanwhile Antigone`s fiance, blind prophet and chorus trying to convince Creon to release her, not knowing she killed herself. Creon relents and they all find her dead. Antigone`s suitor Haemon and Creon`s wife kill themselves so know Creon is left alone full of sorrow.
Medea
Medea`s husband marries another woman, Glauke, the daughter of Creon, the King of Corinth. He banishes Medea and her two sons out of Corinth. Knowing Medea she is not going to give up so easy. She swears revenge and promise she will kill them all. She convinces Creon to let her stay one more day in Corinth. It was enough time to make such a good plan. She poisoned the crown and grown so when Glauke puts it on entire body is now caught by fire. When The king sees that he jumped into fire and dies as well. Half of Medea`s plan has worked out. Later she kills both of her sons by leaving Jason completely alone and distressed.
Oedipus
The curse has befallen Thebes. Oedipus trying to find out who killed Laius the King. Teiresias, the blind prophet, inform Oedipus that Oedipus is Laius murderer. His wife Jocasta gives give an advice to ignore what prophet says. To reassure Oedipus is alright she tells the prophecy how she and King Laius had a son who was prophesied to kill Laius and sleep with her. Oedipus was told that he has been adopted by an old man. But he didn`t believe that story and decided to seek for answers. He asks messenger and shepherd many questions meanwhile Jocasta understands that she is Laius wife and mother.... And Laius long time ago killed his father. Full of sorrow and despair she kills herself. Oedipus realizes that he killed his own father, have married his mom and had children with her, he gouges his eyes and is exiled from Thebes.
Trojan Women
Troy is destroyed. All men is killed. The Greeks share out all women. Talthybius, the messenger of the Greeks, came to tell Hecuba wants will happen next. Hecuba, dethroned queen of Trojan, and her daughters, Cassandra,Polyxena and Andromache are taken away by different lords. Cassandra is carried away to her own fate because recently she drove mad. Polyxena has been killed as sacrifice at the tomb for the Greek warrior Achillis. Andromache cursing Helen for causing the war is taken away to the Greek ships. Helen doesn`t know what to do. She begs Menelaus the king of Spartan to forgive her claiming that everything she has done was a spell. Hecuba swears all her story and warns him that Helen will betray him again. Nevertheless Menelaus sent her to travel back on a ship. Talthybius comes in bearing dead Andromaches son on his hands. Hecuba prepares body for burial. Finally Hecuba tries to kill herself in fire but soldiers stops her from committing suicide and she is taken off as other Trojan women to their Greek conquerors.
Main themes of Trojan Women are:
War - the horror of war,
Hope - Hecuba believes in better tomorrow,
Revenge - Athens turns against the Greeks.
My scene is from Trojan Women. Where she speak with Talphybius about who is to go where. Talphybius tells her about where she and all her daughters have to be taken. My partner is Owais. Because I knew him before it is easy to work together.
I should work on articulation. I practice everyday exercises Rob gave us last week. It`s "OO, OH, OR" and CG, FV, PB, LT, MN. Since I have been trying to improve my articulation skills reading books loudly and many tongue twisters. I observed that I breath in and out using my belly not shoulders any more.
