Cultural Context

• Performance conventions in Sophocles time ranged from competitions to special occasions to festivals. Whenever the Greeks found a chance to put on a play, they would. The plays were seen as a religious even that thanked Dionysus, who is the God of Theatre.
• The plays created a trend of fashion. The costumes created were always padded as to make the actors appear bigger and shoes had big chunk heels to make the actor taller. Actors wore this clothing so that they sytuck out and were seen from any given place from the audience. Actores would also wear masks that held an exaggerated expression. The masks would protect the actors from the situation that their character was in and the brutality of the journey their character embarked on.