Bizarre interpretation of the Sophocles Greek tragedy, which follows the condemnation of Antigone after burying her fallen brother after being left unburied at King Creon's order. Director Thomas Lee Rutter Wri
Halfway through Antigone, the surtitles to a speech by Haemon (Joe Sefton) announced that the Theban people were 'speaking in the dark' on Antigone's behalf. More precisely, they were singing. Eastman and musical director Alex Silverman met the challenge of using the same cast for two ...
With a truly remarkable performance, Antigone pays homage to the power of the gods and the honor of Polynices, her fallen brother's soul. She makes it completely evident that life on earth is mere in comparison to life after death among your beloved. Cast away in exile by their father ...
“This way we create an intimate feeling, sort of a framing sequence that invites the audience in,” Cotter said. “Hopefully, this takes away a little of that stilted quality, when the script is detached and fairly objective. I’ve also asked the cast to contemporize the dialogue, make ...
Characters who speak or sing in unison to comment on the action in a classical Greek play; the actors who form part of the chorus. strophe and antistrophe side to side movements from the chorus Prologue/Epilogue short pieces of poetry, which one actor from the cast speaks to the audience ...
” But if plays past, which have included offerings likeMojo MickyboandScenes from the Big Picture, were anything to go by, then what McCafferty’sAntigonewould really offer would be a dark dramatisation of the ambiguities and brutalities of modern life, all cast to a demotic he b...