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Summary A-Level Drama ANTIGONE Costume and Casting Ideas for Essays

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Antigone

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AQA

Suggested costume and casting ideas for the characters of Sophocle's 'Antigone'. These are really useful pieces of knowledge and creativity for exam questions.

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drama
antigone
costume design
costume
design
casting
sophocles
eurydice
creon
ismene
the sentry

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Examinator
AQA
Subject
Drama
Unit
Antigone

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ANTIGONE

CASTING + SUSTAINED COSTUME: brown disheveled hair contrast to her blonde sister, wider
build so not conventionally attractive, challenging ideals of AG women

Prologue: orange peplos, contrast to her sister and contrast to the Ancient Greek most feminine
colour which was yellow

Second Epeisodion: orange peplos + DIRT MAKE UP as she has just been caught re-burying
Polynices body

Fourth Epeisodion: black peplos as she is about to go to her tomb to die, she is in mourning of
herself, the kommos, her lamentation

MESSENGER

CASTING + SUSTAINED COSTUME: not very tall, dirt make up as he is low status, scruffy
buskins

Exodos: brown chlamys, short hair

TIRESIAS

CASTING: bald head, long white beard, medium build, slightly smaller than Creon

Fifth Epeisodion: white ankle-length chiton with a brown himation, poor condition (worn +
distressed), eyes sown shut, holds walking stick

HAEMON

Casting: tall but not as much as Creon, conventionally attractive/handsome, short/well-styled
brown hair

Third Epeisodion: white himation, colour of goodness to reflect his democratic values

ISMENE

Casting: not very tall, very small, submissive, pale complexion, blonde hair contrast Antigone’s brown
hair, very conventionally attractive

Prologue: black chiton, mourning Polynices and Eteocles death, beige buskins

Second Epeisodion: yellow peplos, most feminine colour

EURYDICE

Casting: blonde, blue-eyed, conventionally attractive, light make up to accentuate beauty

Exodos: after death and revealed on ekkyklema she would be in red blood flowing from stomach
area, hair disheveled, make up smudged from crying

CREON

Casting + Sustained Costume: tall=dominance, white full-length chiton and a purple himation
in PRISTINE condition, purple associated with wealth and authority, neatly styled white hair,
tallest character, authoritative appeal, bold features to make him stand out, gold-leaf patterned
crown

THE SENTRY

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