Set Design for Antigone

Outline your set design for Antigone and explain how it would help a

present day audience to understand the plays themes and atmosphere's.

The play Antigone can be greatly enhanced by the correct use of set,

in the same way though the set can be used and interpreted in many

different ways.

To start with I am going to draw a picture of my set design so i can

then refer to it as i talk about the different aspects of it and how

each of those aspects would help a present day audience understand the

plays themes and atmospheres.

I would begin with projecting 3 images onto a white sheet that is

draped over the back wall of my set.

The first of these images is going to be a gravestone. This will be

projected onto the left hand third of the screen and for the reason

that even though in ancient Greece they did not use gravestones it

will help the audience understand how Eteocles has been buried in the

proper manner as a good son.

In the centre third of the screen I would have projected an image of a

pair of eyes, these eyes would be glowing red to begin with but they

would gradually get a more watery red until they become glowing

yellow. The eyes are there to symbolise to the audience how the

characters are constantly in the presence of God, which is quite

clearly one of the plays major themes. The eyes show how Creon is

always under scrutiny and anything any of the characters does is being

seen, in a way that he/she see's everything and knows everythi...