Antigone set design

Using the theme you and your group chose to highlight in your collage, write a paragraph or two describing how you would transfer the images incorporated with that theme into a set design. You can describe the overall set design or focus on an important item that would be on stage. (For example, if your theme involved chaos vs. order, and you put a picture of a prison on your collage, how would you represent that prison on stage?) How do these set elements reflect your theme?

In my group's collage, the whole conflict of Antigone versus the king is based upon the blood and bones of the war. In the collage, we represented this by gray and red paper squares littering the bottom of the paper. For a set, I would actually want to have dried skeletons w/clothing and other artifacts that would clearly label them as recently dead. I want the stage to be littered with theses bodies, so that the entire play takes place with the characters walking around them to act, literally have the war directly influence every action on stage. I think that the war is a big theme in antigone- it is chaos (bloody killing on the battlefield) and order (the systematic and historical acceptance of war as a way to solve differences). Antigone wants to bury her brother and thus complete the god's end to a war, whereas the King wants to enforce his law, which is the government end of a war- a new government & its regulations. I don't know if this would be possible, but if the performance was set in a small theater, I would want a stench, like rotting flesh- or just a disgusting smell that can't be labelled as anything known (like rotten milk) to permeate the performance space. For practical reasons, I would want it to be a smell that actors could breath and smell for the entirety of rehearsal time and the performance- but one that when the audience walked out of the theater- they would wonder how they could have stood the smell for so long.

My group also saw the theme of Antigone's inevitable death as a continuing thread throughout the entire play. We represented this with all the pictures and themes of out collage leading up (like a mountain) to a cave with a over-sized noose.
blood & bones
cave w/noose
law of the people-kingship vs. law of god- moral
chained hands vs. unchained