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

Outline your set architectural plan for Antigone and say how it would help apresent day audience to consider the plays themes and standard pressure.For the set design of Antigone, I need to think about how everything cogitate together to provide a complete picture, interacting the actorswith set, colour & scale.If I was scheming the set for a performance this play at college, Iwould have a bun in the oven it performed in the theatre studio in Notre Dame college,it is a additive squargon space approximately 8metres x 8metres. The keythemes being communicated in this play are those of power, arrogance,love, war, pride & family values.As we know, the pretext of the play is the wash of a war, so Ifeel that a backdrop of the issue of World War I would beappropriate as the circumstance go away be the feuding East European countriesfeuding. The backdrop leave behind be that of the trenches after(prenominal) World War Iand this leave behind be incessantly there to underline the message that it isa post war society. When this head needs emphasising, it go out be litsuch at cartridge holder could be the opening chorus on lines 100-148. This willprovide the military-like atmosphere along with the chorus dressed inmilitary renders, again to stress the point, it would be a verycheerful yet controlled atmosphere that I would want to create.I would use gallant in this production to press out importance, I would alsohave Creon dressed in a dinner gown 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 context yet 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 comprehensiveness and are dra ped fromthe ceiling to the ground. These would be quite enclosing high-minded andso are a constant reminder that Creon is ruler and makes anyone stood next to it look fairly 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 next toone of the drapes, this will designate 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 cruddy (line 441) to symbolise therespect for her brother. Similarly for Haemon when he talks to hisfather after Antigone has been condemned, he would be wearing allblack to symbolise affliction but with a red sash across his waist to point 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 express 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 coordinated Stage Picture,taking into account all aspects of the set, the Overall Design invention 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.