Antigonie How I would set the first choral movement

... Antigonie How I would set the first choral movement Antigonie is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. It is chronologically the third of the three Theban plays but was written first.[1] The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it. Traditionally a play like Antigonie would have been preformed during festivals to thousands of people. Greek plays like this usually contained up too three actors and a large chorus who would narrate all the events and keep the audience up to date. This chorus was usually full of ordinary people from the village. Antigone would have traditionally been preformed in an Amphitheater, with the audience in a semicircle around the performers, who would have acted the play out on a raised platform as well as a smaller area lower down. For this reason if I was staging a performance of Antigonie I would choose

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