You’re Staging a Production of Antigone and Are Responsible for the Set, Lighting, Sound and Costume Design. with Full Textual Referencing, Explain Your Ideas.

You’re staging a production of Antigone and are responsible for the set, lighting, sound and costume design. With full textual referencing, explain your ideas.

For the set design I would use aspects of the traditional Greek amphitheatre. I would have a black box studio inside rather than an amphitheatre which is outside. This is because inside you can perform Antigone whatever the weather at whatever time of day, it is easier to control the sound as well. The theatre will be in the round to suggest an amphitheatre and there will be a suggestion of a skene, however actors are unable to get behind this to change costumes as there are no costume changes this will not be a problem for actors. The entrances and exits are in the audience into the orchestra.

In centre stage there is a raised platform which echoes the shape of the orchestra which is used in the performance to show higher status, for example in the Creon and Haemon scene when the actor playing Creon says ‘Is there indeed? Am I expected to listen And take lessons in political tactics At my age, from a mere boy?’ Here Creon would use the central raised platform and talk down to Haemon to show that he is in a higher status to his son whilst Haemon intentionally walks around the platform. However when the actor playing Haemon says ‘Listen to the people in the streets, Father, The ordinary Thebans! They say she hasn’t!’ Haemon would use the platform to show his maturity even though he knows he is not meant to use this so you see Creon’s reaction to this on further lines. The soldier also does not use the central platform as a sign of respect and also he is a lower class citizen of Thebes so he knows not to use it and again intentionally walks around it. Teiresias however is shown to have the higher status in comparison to Creon. I would have the actor playing Teiresias walk up on the platform on the line ‘I understood that you, King Creon, have decreed this filth That chokes our alters.’ As this proceeds to...