I would stage the beginning of the play Antigone with everyone frozen until the Chorus describes their role in the play. The Chorus would consist of one person and they would walk around the stage, stopping to talk about the given character. The Chorus is one person because it is easier for the person to walk around the stage when they aren’t in a big group also the stage directions say “He points at the messenger” signifying that the Chorus is singular (Antigone, 5). I would have Antigone sitting in the middle of the stage on some concrete steps outside a house. In the top story of the house Eurydice would be seen through a window knitting. Leaning on the outside side of the house would be the Messenger thinking about the premonitions of a catastrophe. The tree red-faced card players are on the opposite side of the building as the Messenger. Haemon and Ismene are in the corner of the stage talking to each other and Creon and his page would be in the other corner.
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