The set of Sophocles' Antigone, which
opened this week in Yulman Theater, features dozens of wooden frames
assembled in such a way that they echo some of the vocabulary of classical
architecture.
It's an interesting effect made more so, perhaps, by
the fact that the frames are taken from crates that once held snowmobiles
and lawn tractors.
Set designer Charles Steckler found the spoils at
All-Seasons Equipment Inc., a snowmobile and tractor dealership on Freeman's
Bridge Road in Scotia. The firm often donates the packaging to
organizations, most of which use the material for bon-fires at pep
rallies, Steckler says.
The crates arrived late in the summer in a pile outside
the Yulman Theater. After some assurances to facilities services that the
crates were not to be discarded, students began assembling the pieces for
the set.
Also on the set is a life-size plaster casting that
serves as a body on a sort of war memorial statue. If the body looks
familiar, it should. The model was assistant director Chris Welch '00,
who spent four hours on Monday being covered with gauze and plaster.