Antigone
Directed by Sarah Breinig | Green Room Theatre Company | March 16-18, 2023
Creon’s office was simple, black walls added to the character’s aesthetic as he perched atop the scaffolding. When not on the stage below, Creon would sit at his desk and the rest of the characters went about their business right under his nose.
The painting on the wall is an abstract work in Creon’s colors of red and black. Within the picture frames are photos of Creon’s sons and wife.
Antigone’s studio lived in the upstage left corner the entire show. Every time Antigone spoke of defiance, she would be working on a painting the audience could not see. When the canvas was turned around and leaned against Haemon’s body at the end of the show, an abstract painting was revealed to the audience with the message “Justice enacted, not these mortal coils.”
In the middle of the upstage gallery sat the statement piece of the show, a painting of a rock climber’s hands. To it’s left, difficult to see in this photo, is another painting of someone’s hand mid climb. To the right is a painting of ballet shoes and a painting of a human skull with surgery lines. Each piece was a statement on endurance.
In the upstage right corner sat a canvas crate donated by the art department. Leaning against it was an unfinished canvas, a mosaic made of smashed records, and an abstract painting of the brain healing from a full hemispherectomy. Both paintings played into the theme of endurance.
A majority of the paintings were completed by director Sarah Breinig.
The largest construction project of this show was the large canvas that took up the majority of the upstage right corner. The canvas was constructed by stapling a white sheet to a frame made of 2x4 planks and attached to the platform located in this corner.