The Last Antigone

Fantastic I'm not even properly launched and I have a brilliant commission. The Last Antigone is a contemporary version of Sophocles's play Antigone, in this version Antigone is Dunedin royalty, a young woman who's only care is how to play up to the paparazzi. She is thrust into a situation where she must question the The ruling State and in doing so pay the ultimate price.

This play has been written by Tee O'neil a short blurb about her outstanding ability as a writer can be seen here http://www.ozscript.org/author.php?id=536 and will be seen during Dunedin's next Fringe Festival next March.

I have been asked to come up with a concept for the poster and advertising flyer's.

This has been a really fun project to be thinking about, I have read the play about four times now and have come up with a number of ideas and luckily my favourite idea and I believe by far the strongest has been well embraced by the plays Director.

This is what I see!

An apple tree is surrounded by a rumpety fence,

apples lie rotting on the ground,

a skinny horse stands on the other side of the fence to one side (the right).

On the fence hangs a sign it says something along the lines of "Forbidden Fruit by order of the state" or something to that effect.

The background is central Otago spanning into the distance mountain ranges and Tors.

Antigone stands under the tree she wears a cloak so we can't really see her face she holds a rotten apple (death/grim reaper like but still feminine).

The background colours are muted while the front colours are over saturated, the whole picture looks almost painted/textured Think National bank ad at the end the horse stands by a tree (not with green filter obviously) think Big Fish.

I also see other things going on in the picture that is only obvious to those who look, a skink on a fence post, a caterpillar on a leaf, small critters getting up to strange things maybe, a family tree spelled out in apples.

This is going to be a large and challenging project, but I can see it really paying off and I hope that they will be the sort of poster that people will want to keep.

Reatha