Parts
Total: Meghna (119); Ryan (99); Maya (102); Sonya (100 + intro(28 Creon, _ chorus)).
Intro
- Family relations (tree, chalk outlines, tableaux)
- Creon's decree, flyers
- Post-war
- Spoken by chorus?
- Lines to consider/adapt/meld:
- Chorus enters from sides, having been seated in audience
- Choral images
- Drum to punctuate narrative of war
Script
- Creon's decree
- Ant + Ism run accross, 4 lines
- Chorus
- Ode to Man elements
- Strophe A+B hybrid: 332-335; 360-4
- Parodos elements
- Vv. 127-133
- Vv. 141-154
- (Describes war up to Kreon's decree)
- (Seven generals at seven gates)
- Burial - Purification scene
- Cleansing scene --> Creon comes in Scene 1
- Antigone might here recite 863-866; 871
Scene I
- Antigone and Creon
- Vv. 441-525
- Personal oppositions
- Have Ismene come in for depth
- Watchman gets cut
- Do we want the chorus to hear and or speak to actors
Script
- Creon enters as Antigone is cleansing hands in intro
- 441-472; 480-490; 497-525
- * Consider reducing 499-507
- * Consider reducing 450-70
Glue
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Scene II
- Haemon & Creon
- Vv. 615-780
Script
- 615-780
Scene III
- Antigone (& Creon)
- Vv. -943
- Anticlimactic: dying like anyone else
Script
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Scene IV
- Tiresias/Messenger Montage
- Vv. 1070-1090:
- Vv. 1205-1290:
Issues
- Intro?
- Chorus?
- Scenes
- Narrative Glue