Summary A-Level Drama ANTIGONE Costume and Casting Ideas for Essays
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Course
Antigone
Institution
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.
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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