Antigone Journal 1

I would stage the scene as having a main floor area with a large, wide set of steps leading up to a second floor.  On the main floor, there would be a semi-long dining table off to the left hand side of the stage and the following characters would be positioned as described.

Antigone would be sitting at the top of the stairs sitting perfectly still with her hands around her knees while blankly staring off into the distance (into the audience) so as to picture her as being helpless and morbid as the Chorus describes her fate.

The Guards would be playing cards on the stairs off to the side and down a ways from Antigone, with drunken and carefree looks on their faces to contrast with Antigones blank stares.

The Chorus would be multiple people standing on the top step next to Antigone.  The people composing the Chorus would have a variety of different sarcastic sounds to their voices so as to display a more mocking tone.

Eurydice would sit in a rocking chair, knitting, on the second floor isolated from the rest of the group to display her distance and detachment from the rest of the people.

The Nurse would be standing off to the right side of the main floor observing all of the activity (at the party or gathering, it doesn't really say)

Ismene would be on the right end of the table with Haemon nudging up close to her.  He is flirting with Ismene in a slightly withdrawn way because his lover Antigone is in the room.

Creon is sitting at the farthest left end of the table, slumped over in his chair with an irritated and disheartened look on his face.  He is not the kind of person who actually enjoys his position, but does it anyway just because he has to, and "he wonders whether this business of being a leader  of men is worth the trouble" (4).