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Parts

• Intro: Creon (Sonya; 28 Creon + _ chorus); Antigone (Meghna; 94).
• Maya's Scene of Reflection: On Tragedy, considering tragedy.
• Scene I: Antigone (Meghna); Creon (Sonya; 60); Ismene (Maya).
• Sonya's Scene of Reflection: On Masks, with Masks!.
• Scene II: Creon (Maya; 41); Haemon (Ryan; 56).
• Meghna's Scene of Reflection: On Scene III.
• Scene III: Antigone Light (Ryan; 43) ; Antigone Dark (Sonya; 40); Creon (Meghna; 10).
• Scene IV: Tiresias (Maya; 61); Creon (Meghna; 15).
• Ryan's Scene of Reflection: On Knowledge, Belief, and Ignorance.
• Scene IV: Tiresias (Maya; 61); Creon (Meghna; 15).

Total: Meghna (119); Ryan (99); Maya (102); Sonya (100 + intro(28 Creon, _ chorus)).

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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

1. Creon's decree
2. Ant + Ism run accross, 4 lines
3. Chorus
   • Ode to Man elements
     1. Strophe A+B hybrid: 332-335; 360-4
   • Parodos elements
     1. Vv. 127-133
     2. Vv. 141-154
     3. (Describes war up to Kreon's decree)
     4. (Seven generals at seven gates)
4. Burial - Purification scene
   • Cleansing scene --> Creon comes in Scene 1
     1. Antigone might here recite 863-866; 871

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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

1. Creon enters as Antigone is cleansing hands in intro
2. 441-472; 480-490; 497-525
3. * Consider reducing 499-507
4. * Consider reducing 450-70

Glue

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Scene II

• Haemon & Creon
• Vv. 615-780

Script

1. 615-780
   • Consider reducing passim

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Scene III

• Antigone (& Creon)
• Vv. -943
• Anticlimactic: dying like anyone else

Script

1. • Consider reducing passim

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Scene IV

• Tiresias/Messenger Montage
• Vv. 1070-1090:
• Vv. 1205-1290:

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Issues

• Intro?
• Chorus?
• Scenes
• Narrative Glue