Set Design for Antigone and how it Helps the Audience Understand the Th

Outline your set design for Antigone and say how it would help apresent day audience to understand the plays themes and atmosphere.For the set design of Antigone, I contend to think about how everythinglinks unneurotic to provide a complete picture, interacting the actorswith set, colour & scale.If I was designing the set for a performance this play at college, Iwould have it performed in the theatre studio in Notre Dame college,it is a linear squ atomic number 18 space approximately 8metres x 8metres. The keythemes be communicated in this play are those of power, arrogance,love, war, pride & family values.As we know, the pretext of the play is the import of a war, so Ifeel that a backdrop of the afterwardmath of World War I would beappropriate as the context go out be the feuding East European countriesfeuding. The backdrop leave behind be that of the trenches after World War Iand this will be constantly there to underline the message that it isa post war society. When this p oint needs emphasising, it will be litsuch at time could be the opening chorus on lines 100-148. This willprovide the military-like atmosphere along with the chorus robed inmilitary uniforms, again to emphasise the point, it would be a verycheerful yet controlled atmosphere that I would want to create.I would use royal in this production to extract importance, I would alsohave Creon dressed in a formal military 5-star Generals uniform madefrom purple fabric, purple is also a colour of royalty, as we know, inthe play Creon is king, in the performance, he is a General in contextbut still a king, the uniform will tell the audience of hissuperiority above his associates, but the purple should give them theidea that he is of a royal background. There will be two purple drapeshanging from each side upstage, these are there to symbolise theauthority of Creon as they are 6-7 feet in width and are draped fromthe ceiling to the ground. These would be quite enclosing imposing andso are a c onstant reminder that Creon is ruler and makes anyone stoodnext to it look plum insignificant which is its purpose. At thebeginning, when Antigone is arguing with Ismene whether to buryPolynecies, Antigone will be stood upstage centre in full viewexpressing herself, whereas Ismene will be stood upstage left hand next toone of the drapes, this will signify Creons... ...t his power and egois not infallible, only his arrogance is.The costume is of a military nature as I have already described, butfor Haemon and Antigone, it will be much more youthful to start, butas the performance goes on, their costume will change as theirattitudes change thus, after Antigone has buried her brother, shewill be much more sombre, wearing black (line 441) to symbolise therespect for her brother. Similarly for Haemon when he talks to his cause after Antigone has been condemned, he would be wearing allblack to symbolise sadness but with a red sash across his waist toshow anger towards his father (line 633). Also when the chorus climbthe blocks for the final verse, they will now have luxurious velvetpurple uniforms, again to show a change in power, Creon is now dirtyfrom rolling on the ground, they stand above him.For this set design. I used the Craig idea of Unified Stage Picture, victorious into account all aspects of the set, the Overall DesignConcept everything has a use and is interwoven with the context ofthe text, the interaction with the set by actors, the moving of therubble. This all adds together to provide Total Theatre.