4 cast members Name Known for Corina Harper Antigone Feast for the Beast (2008) Matilda Harper Ismene The Catalyst (2010) Tristan Rowley King Creon The Forbidden Four (2012) Thomas Lee Rutter Polyneices / Death / Blind prophet (as Louret H. Sametter) Video Shop Tales of Te...
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 ...
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 ...
Set in mythic Thebes, the story of Antigone revolves around a duel for political authority between its two main protagonists: King Creon, the newly crowned ruler of Thebes, and his rebellious niece Antigone, daughter of Oedipus. The play opens in the wake of a deadly civil war. Th...