Antigone Reaction To Haemon

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The acting of the play was the cringiest thing to watch. Haemon was the worst actor by far. When he was “killed” you can see him blinking. His facials weren’t all that expressive and whoever played him wasn’t cut out to act as Haemon. Eurdydice wasn’t all that bad as Haemon was. Her reaction to her son dying was really weird though. When she was stabbing herself, it was quite uncanny to watch. People around me watching were like” what did I just watch?”. When she had stabbed her self, one scene had showed her bleeding. The second time the camera was on her, all of a sudden, blood was running down her arm! Antigone by far was the best actor; she expressed emotions throughout except for one scene when she was crying. I couldn’t take her serous

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