We had our first production meeting last night, 11/17. Though we met before so I could describe things to think about while reading the play, this was our first opportunity to dig at the meat and see what we're working with.
My initial inspiration for a "world of the play" came from the YouTube music group The Piano Guys. They explore new takes on classical music, have gorgeous original pieces, and they cover contemporary pop songs with just piano and cello. I was fascinated by the idea of taking something modern and presenting it in a typical "classical" style - Panic! at the Disco doesn't have a lot of piano quartet pieces. The Piano Guys, however, make it work.
My designers and I have taken that idea further to the visual style of Antigone. We want the characters to resemble living statues, though not so far as the street performers with full makeup. Instead, the characters would have the trappings of statuary - wrinkled clothes textured with paint to seem stiff, makeup to suggest being carved of stone and marble, and hair colored to match.
In this way, we bring a traditional Greek tragedy, filter it through several years of interpretation and adaptation, and emerge with what makes the show powerful: a timeless heroine with impressive resolve doomed to die for her moral integrity.
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