Antigone Journal 1

The stage would be dimly lit with a grand staircase in the center upstage. There would be six chorus members. Two will stand six feet or so on either side of the stair on the same plane as the top step. Two more will stand on the plane of the bottom step or center stage. They will be further from the stairs than the first two. The last pair will be downstage and will be the furthest from one another. The will be dressed in similar colors but their clothes will be worn differently (one jacket buttoned up while another is opened and sleeves or pant legs rolled or not). One chorus member will speak at a time while important phrases will be said by all of the chorus. Once the entire chorus has finished speaking another chorus member will speak alone.

For example:

CHORUS, Well here we are.

CHORUS 1,these people are about to act out for you

CHORUS, the story of Antigone.

CHORUS 2, That thin little creature sitting by herself, staring straight ahead, seeing nothing is

CHORUS, Antigone. She is thinking.

Whenever a chorus member is speaking they will look downstage toward the audience and when they are not speaking they face the person who is being talked about like in the sample about the chorus would stare at Antigone.

Eurydice will be above everything in the upstage left corner. She will only have back lighting on her while she knits and hums a song. The Nurse will be with her but at a distance.

Haemon will first be next to Ismene and will move towards Antigone when the chorus speaks about him. He will climb the stairs but stay below Antigone when he goes on one knee.

Creon will be with his page in the downstage right corner opposite of the Queen. The page and him will be looking at documents.

The messanger will be to the far left of center stage. He will be leaning on a column and will be tending to his shoes.

The three guards are going to be playing cards and drinking next to the stairs above the top step.

When all of the characters are mentiond they will have an amber top light on them only. The chorus will continually have a dark blue top light on them.