Antigone Exam Q

Stage OPC

• Performed in an Ampitheatre

• at the festival of Dionysus

• seated an audience of 15,000

Stage Brecht

• distance the spectator

• create alienation

• break the fourth wall

Set OPC

• Architectural Skene

• Eccyclema

• Thymele

Set Brecht

• projections

• placards

• Versatile and symbolic use of set

Lighting OPC

• conforms to unity of time

• set from dawn until dusk

• completely reliant on sunlight

Lighting Brecht

• clinical, open white - illuminate the truth/ show the showing

• show source of lighting

• bold colour washes - jolt, colour symbolism

Sound OPC

• live music

• instruments - kithara, aulos, drums

Sound Brecht

• pertinent lyrics

• jolt spectator

• push sociopolitical message

• politicise audience

• create spass

Costume OPC

• all male cast

• masks - represent gender/ status

• Chitons and Cothurni - visual aids to audience

• prosterneda and progastreda

Costume Brecht

• archetypal costume

• actors multi-rolling and changing on stage

• symbolic or gestic use of costume

Characterisation OPC

• declamatory acting style

• movement by Chorus to progress scene

Characterisation Brecht

• demonstrating of character

• archetypes

• gestus

• spass

• multi-rolling

• use of narrator / Coryphaeus

Chorus OPC

• all male cast

• masks to represent everyman

• consists of 12 members - Sophoclese increased to 15

• their role is to reflect attitude of spectators and to ask questions on their behalf

Everyman

• build a bridge between the actors and the audience

• represent everyone

• ages

• heritages

• genders

• socioeconomic status

Archetypes

a very typical example of a certain person or thing - the soldier, beggar, mother

Gestus

gesture communicating social meaning

Spass

By presenting a serious subject in a funny way, it makes the audience laugh, and then question why they laughed

Brecht phrases

Think not feel

Jolt the spectator

Illuminate the truth

Show the showing

Unity of time

action in a tragedy should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours

Entrances and exits (actors)

stage left: wilderness

stage right: civilised society

center: women

Entrance and exit (chorus)

entrance: parados (after prologue)

exit: exodus