Antigone

SCENE: Before the palace of CREON, King of Thebes. A central double door, and two lateral doors. A platform extends the length of the facade, and from this platform three steps lead down into the "orchestra," or chorus-ground.
TIME: Dawn of the day after the repulse of the Argive army from the assault on Thebes.

PROLOGUE [ANTIGONE and ISMENE enter from the central door of the Palace.]
Antigone
    Ismene, dear sister,
    You would think that we had already suffered enough
    For the curse on Oedipus
    I cannot imagine any grief
    That you and I have not gone through. And now —
    Have they told you of the new decree of our King Creon?
Ismene
    I have heard nothing: I know
    That two sisters lost two brothers, a double death
    In a single hour; and I know that the Argive army