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 Writers Thomas Lee Rutter|Sophocles(characters) ...
Sophocles' tragedy Antigone follows a cast of flawed characters as they attempt to reconcile with a life altered by war. Antigone and Ismene have lost their brothers, while Creon has risen to a new position of authority. Both Antigone and Ismene struggle to deal with grief in their own ways...
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 ...
Cast away in exile by their father some time long ago, Polynices, Antigone's brother returns with a small army of collected troops to battle his rival brother, Eteocles for the title of king following the suicide of their father, Oedipus. At the conclusion of a bloody war that claimed mo...
Finally, the demands of a novel took over as characters inspired by the play took on new, modem forms, and these characters pushed the story in its own direction.Yet the structure of the Sophocles play always cast a shadow, and often thegreatest alterations in my novel were exact inversions...