Antigone
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Image List:
Image 1: Members of the "Antigone" chorus (from left, Asha Iyer, Rachelle Clark, Laleh Khorsandi and Kelly Doran) comfort each other during rehearsal of a sorrowful scene. The open-air UCI production debuts Thursday, Sept. 29.
Image 2: The play's director, grad student Sonya Cooke, wearing a hat, leads her actors through a training exercise at the rock garden in Aldrich Park.
Image 3: Fourth-year drama student Marlene Yarosh listens to advice on how to engage with her character, Sentry.
Image 4: Chorus members Laleh Khorsandi, Rachelle Clark and Asha Iyer, from left, lie on the grass in Aldrich Park connecting with their senses before connecting with their masked characters.
Image 5: Outside Rowland Hall - another of the roving production's stops - Cooke, left, directs Yarosh as other cast members watch.
Image 6: The actors are encouraged to note any insights into the minds of their characters. Some of the arcane language and complex odes in the original "Antigone" were trimmed to make the play more audience-friendly.
Image 7: In character as Leader, cognitive neuroscience grad student Daniel Schoonover looks fixedly at a fellow actor. Written by Sophocles circa 442 B.C., the play explores themes of power, gender, family obligation, ethics and honor.
Image 8: Chorus members Asha Iyer, Rachelle Clark, Laleh Khorsandi and Kelly Doran huddle and chant in preparation for a scene.
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