Stage directions play an important role and affect the plot and consequently, affect the characters. These directions are given to actors by the director and prescribe concrete actions which actors have to perform to make the play look specious. In both plays – Antigone by Sophocles and Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca – stage directions are very important in building the overall picture of characters and affect the plot. The main difference between the two plays is the lack of concrete stage directions in Sophocles’ Antigone . Unlike in Blood’s wedding , the role of narrator in Antigone belongs to the chorus. By the means of music and singing, the director expresses all the events and shows the interaction between characters. He also helps the audience to understand what is going on better. This technique became one of the main characteristics of many Greek tragedies and Antigone is not an exception. Chorus can express different moods and becomes a better narrator than a person. Music arouses deep emotions and makes the spectator feel the drama of tragedy and pain of the main characters. This stage direction affects the plot a lot. Therefore, if the plot is affected, all the characters are affected as well. Everything revolves around music and the sense of the songs in Antigone. It is clear, that in Greece in 442 BC when Antigone was written, the rules and the image of play were different than in modern Blood wedding written in the twentieth century. Therefore, methods of giving stage directions were different: The ancient manuscripts of Antigone and other Greek plays do not supply stage directions (though the ancient commentators often provide information relevant to staging, delivery, “blocking”, etc.). But it is surely preferable that good stage directions should be provided by a translator than that readers should be left to their own devices in visualizing action, gesture, and spectacle. The ancient tragedy was austere and distanced using masks, which means that the reader must not expect the detailed intimacy that characterizes stage directions in modern naturalistic drama (Gibbons, 7). Unlike in Antigone, Lorca uses concrete stage directions. He uses a technique that helps the reader or spectator to associate every character with color. By identifying Groom with yellow color, Lorca shows him as a wealthy person. According to his stage direction, yellow is a color of gold; therefore it helps the reader to identify Groom as a reach person. The author also compares this color with wheat, because the last one is a powerful plant that gives birth to bread. He also associates wheat with death, because Groom’s lips are yellow when he is dead at the end of the play. Lorca associates other characters with colors as well. He characterizes Leonardo’s house as pink, which is a kind of red color. The last symbolizes blood which consequently means death. The author uses other colors in symbolism as well. Orange blossom represents innocence and the author also associates purity with the white color. These directions help spectators to associate each character with concrete color. In contrast to Sophocles’ Antigone , these directions make Lorca’s play more detailed, concentrate on the character’s intimacy. In Antigone , Sophocles uses directions that make characters l