Antigone, the 2500-year-old text, was compressed into an hour. Tunie played the titled character, making clear her strong sense of duty and determination to bury the body of her brother ...

King Kreon honors one with a proper burial, but rules the other brother be left on the ground without burial. Antigone defies the king’s law to bury her brother. Poet and classics scholar Anne Carson ...

Sophocles’ “Antigone” offers guidance on how to deal with the current conflict between honoring the Confederate dead and respecting society’s modern values and norms.

On February 25, the Court Theater presented director Gabrielle Randle-Bent’s production of Sophocles’s Antigone.On one hand, the loose interpretation of the classic Greek tragedy is disorienting from ...

The poet Anne Carson’s translation of Antigone is retitled Antigonick (New Directions, 180 pp., $24.95), as in “nick of time,” suggesting that the play is all about timing. This is Ms.

Antigone, played by Caroline Cassell ’24, and Ismene, played by Quinn Simmons ’24. Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College. Antigone (left), played by Caroline Cassell ’24, and Ismene, played by Quinn ...

Antigone in the Amazon. Through June 10 at NTGent, and on tour in Europe; ntgent.be. A version of this article appears in print on ...

Antigone, close readers of that play will know, has her theatrical and diva-like side, whatever the righteousness of her position (in contrast with the self-effacing Ismene, ...

Harlem Stage kicked off a free, five-week run of Antigone in Ferguson September 13 featuring a rotating cast of actors including The Handmaid’s Tale Emmy winner Samira Wiley as Antigone ...

“This is not your grandmother’s ‘Antigone’,” the press release states, and BarnArts’ reimagined classic Greek tragedy opens at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, and runs through Feb. 22 at Barnard Town Hall.