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

Outline your ring 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 need to think about how e very(prenominal)thinglinks together to provide a complete picture, interacting the actorswith set, colour & scale.If I was designing the set for a act this play at college, Iwould do it performed in the theatre studio apartment in Notre Dame college,it is a linear square space near 8metres x 8metres. The keythemes being communicated in this play are those of power, arrogance,love, war, dress & family values.As we know, the pretext of the play is the aftermath of a war, so Ifeel that a backdrop of the aftermath of World war I would beappropriate as the mount entrust be the feuding vitamin E European countriesfeuding. The backdrop will be that of the trenches after World War Iand this will be constantly there to underline the contentedness that it isa post war society. When this point needs emphasising, it will be litsuch at time could be the opening choir on lines 100-148. This willprovide the military-like atmosphere along with the chorus spruced up inmilitary uniforms, again to emphasise the point, it would be a verycheerful yet controlled atmosphere that I would want to create.I would substance abuse purple in this production to show importance, I would alsohave Creon dressed in a formal military 5-star Generals uniform makefrom 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 the self-assurance of Creon as they are 6-7 feet in width and are draped fromthe capital to the ground. These would be quite enclosing imposi ng andso are a constant reminder that Creon is ruler and makes anyone stoodnext 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 crimsonuce in full viewexpressing herself, whereas Ismene will be stood upstage unexpended next toone of the drapes, this will signify Creons... ...t his power and egois non infallible, only his arrogance is.The costume is of a military nature as I have already described, butfor Haemon and Antigone, it will be very 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 away black (line 441) to symbolise therespect for her brother. as well for Haemon when he talks to hisfather after Antigone has been condemned, he would be wearing allblack to symbolise sadness but with a red sash across his waist t oshow anger towards his father (line 633). excessively when the chorus climbthe blocks for the final verse, they will now have sybaritic 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,taking into account all aspects of the set, the Overall DesignConcept everything has a use and is distort with the context ofthe text, the interaction with the set by actors, the moving of therubble. This all adds together to provide Total Theatre.